ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,276, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hill Phoenix Inc. (Conyers, Ga.).
"Oil management in refrigeration systems" was invented by Senthilkumar Kandappa Goundar Shanmugam (Covington, Ga.), Jeffrey E. Newel (Snellville, Ga.), Manu Mital (Covington, Ga.), John Vincent Mullis (Newnan, Ga.), Sean Taylor (Eatonton, Ga.) and Grady L. Calcote (Lawrenceville, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration assembly includes a receiver tank, a heat exchanger, a first piping assembly, and a second piping assembly. The receiver tank has a fluid outlet and a fluid inlet that receives a working fluid. The heat exchanger is disposed within the...