ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,829, issued on April 1, was assigned to Goodman Manufacturing Co. LP (Waller, Texas).

"Systems and methods for air temperature control including R-32 sensors" was invented by Douglas Notaro (Cypress, Texas), Masahiro Honda (Cypress, Texas), Mark Kendall (Tomball, Texas), Hiroshi Yoh (Cypress, Texas), Yenny Natali Martinez (Houston), Patrick Wang (Katy, Texas), Roberto Flores (Cypress, Texas) and Timmy Ta (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system for detecting an amount of R-32 refrigerant in an air temperature controller using an R-32 refrigerant, and a method of installing a configuration...