ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,782, issued on May 6, was assigned to Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S. Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).
"Systems and methods for sequencing operation of compressed air dryers" was invented by Henry Y. Mark (Philadelphia) and Randy Eng (Davidson, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compressed air dryer systems are described. In an aspect, a system includes, but is not limited to, a plurality of dryer modules and a controller operable to regulate a run-time of each of the plurality of dryer modules. Each dryer module is configured to direct a portion of cooling medium past a stream of compressed air. Each dryer module includes a temperature sensor...