ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,495, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Air conditioning system and method for detecting a refrigerant leak" was invented by Kuan-Lung Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Siang-Lin You (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Jian-Jhang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Pin-Yao Hsieh (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection method for an air-conditioning system includes detecting whether the input power of the compressor of the air-conditioning system is lower than the power threshold. The method includes obtaining the evaporation saturation temperature of the evaporator of the air-conditioning system and obtaining t...