US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for refrigerant leak management" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,130, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for refrigerant leak management" was invented by Jamie Weinert (Escanaba, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerant leak management system includes a return inlet assembly and a purge exhaust outlet assembly. The system also includes a sensor configured to detect refrigerant proximate an air handling enclosure of a HVAC unit. The system further includes a controller configured to control the system to drive air from a conditioned interior space of a building into an external environment via the purge ...