US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on Sept. 30 for "Refrigerant detection system with auxiliary control circuitry" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,243, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Refrigerant detection system with auxiliary control circuitry" was invented by Mason Sloan DeWald (Wichita, Kan.), Andrew Michael Boyd (Wichita, Kan.), Theresa Thy Nguyen Gillette (Wichita, Kan.) and D Gamage Methmini Umayangana Maheshwari Sumanasekara (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes auxiliary control circuitry configured to communicatively couple to a thermostat of the HVAC system. The auxiliary control circuitry is configured to receive a con...