US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on March 17 for "Compressor oil recovery in hybrid VCC pumped two phase loops" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,131, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Compressor oil recovery in hybrid VCC pumped two phase loops" was invented by Raphael Mandel (West Hartford, Conn.) and Ram Ranjan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system includes a liquid loop, a vapor compression loop, and a heat exchanger in fluid communication with each of the liquid loop and the vapor compression cycle loop. The liquid loop includes a cold sink for cooling a heat load. The vapor compression cycle loop is fluidly coupled to the liquid loop by a separator, which is configured to separate a two-phase form of a...