ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,405, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"System and method for controlling head pressure in a refrigeration system" was invented by Arijit Mukherjee (Kalyani, India) and Sangameshwaran Sadhasivam (Kanchipuram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration system comprises a compressor, a condenser, a receiver tank, an evaporator and a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger comprises an inlet positioned downstream of the receiver tank and an inlet positioned downstream of the compressor. The heat exchanger is configured to transfer heat between refrigerant received from the compressor and...