ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,632, issued on June 2, was assigned to Agramkow Fluid Systems A/S (Sonderborg, Denmark).

"Device and method for recovery of refrigerant" was invented by Bjorn Halborg Kjaer (Vojens, Denmark), Morten Klietsch (Sonderborg, Denmark) and Bent Jorn Lorenzen (Sonderborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for recovery of refrigerant from a sealed heat transfer system includes a refrigerant conduit formed in the device for guiding a flow of refrigerant from the heat transfer system to a refrigerant outlet of the device, a refrigerant inlet to the refrigerant conduit. The refrigerant inlet can be provided in a surface of the devi...