US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 15 for "Systems and methods for predicting refrigerant leakage of a critically charged HVAC/Refrigeration system" (California, Virginia, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,830, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for predicting refrigerant leakage of a critically charged HVAC/Refrigeration system" was invented by Evan Aschow (Fair Oaks, Calif.), Michael May (Reno, Nev.), Joel Cesare (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Tony Cacace (Santa Cruz, Calif.), John Sipple (Reston, Va.) and Kira Dickson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for predicting a leak of a HVAC/Refrigeration system includes a critically charged HVAC/Refrigeration system configured to circulate a refrigerant to cool a space, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is...