ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,529, issued on April 14, was assigned to Copeland LP (Sidney, Ohio).

"Method to charge multiple refrigerants with desired concentrations" was invented by Michael A. Saunders (Sidney, Ohio) and Andrew M. Welch (Franklin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging device includes: a first inlet configured to receive a first refrigerant in vapor form; a second inlet configured to receive the first refrigerant in liquid form; a third inlet configured to receive a second refrigerant in liquid form, where the second refrigerant is a different type of refrigerant than the first refrigerant; an outlet configured to output the first and ...