US Patent Issued to TRANE INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 11 for "Refrigerant recovery and repurposing" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,668, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Refrigerant recovery and repurposing" was invented by Dermott Crombie (Kilcolgan, Ireland) and Stephen A. Kujak (Brownsville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are directed to on-site recovery and repurposing of refrigerant. The on-site recovery and/or repurposing recovers an original refrigerant and converts, in-situ, the original refrigerant into a converted refrigerant different from the original refrigerant. The converted refrigerant has a relatively lower global warming potential than the original refrigerant."

The patent was filed on...