ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,530, issued on April 14, was assigned to Fu Sheng Industrial Co. Ltd. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Refrigerant system and controlling method thereof for equalizing pressure difference between oil separator and evaporator" was invented by Wei-Hsu Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yao-Chung Yu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Xuan-Fu Li (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yu-Chih Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerant system including a compressor, an oil separator, an oil solenoid valve, a condenser, an evaporator, a bypass pipe, and a bypass solenoid valve is disclosed. The oil separator is connected to an output end...