US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on March 25 for "Systems for detecting and positioning of reversing valve" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,161, issued on March 25, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems for detecting and positioning of reversing valve" was invented by Shawn A. Hern (Derby, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating and cooling system includes a reversing valve configured to adjust a flow of refrigerant through the heating and cooling system, where the reversing valve includes a first configuration to flow the refrigerant through a first circuit of the heating and cooling system and a second configuration to flow the refrigerant through a second circuit of the heating and cooling system. The heating ...