ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,901, issued on July 14, was assigned to HanJungNCS.Co. LTD (Yeongcheon-si, South Korea).

"Leak detection method" was invented by Hwan Sik Kim (Yeongcheon-si, South Korea), Hwan Seob Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Hyung Kyun Shin (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea), Pill Soo Kang (Daegu, South Korea) and Young Wook Cho (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a leak detection method including a mode determination step of determining, by a mode determination part, an operating mode of a cooling system on the basis of information received from the cooling system, a reference level determination step of determining, by a referen...