US Patent Issued to CARRIER on Aug. 11 for "Charge compensator for heat pump" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,302, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Charge compensator for heat pump" was invented by Dhruv Chanakya Hoysall (South Windsor, Conn.), Thomas Bryant (West Seneca, N.Y.), Tobias Sienel (Baldwinsville, N.Y.), Fatemeh Hejripour Rafsanjani (Jamesville, N.Y.), Arindom Joardar (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Brian Videto (Cortland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a vapor compression cycle comprising a heat exchanger and an expansion device arranged in fluid communication with the heat exchanger. A fluid is configured to circulate withi...