US Patent Issued to Lennox Industries on Nov. 4 for "Refrigerant detection for a cooling system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,832, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Refrigerant detection for a cooling system" was invented by Vickey Bhardwaj (Chennai, India), Siddarth Rajan (Addison, Texas) and Rakesh Goel (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is configured to operate a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system based on a plurality of concentration measurements received from a refrigerant detection sensor. The controller is configured to receive the plurality of concentration measurements from the refrigerant detection sensor disposed upstream of an evaporator coil. The controlle...