ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,031, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hill Phoenix Inc. (Conyers, Ga.).

"CO 2 refrigeration system with multiple receivers" was invented by Senthilkumar Kandappa Goundar Shanmugam (Covington, Ga.), John Vincent Mullis (Newnan, Ga.) and Alireza Behfar (Conyers, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration system having a primary receiver, a secondary receiver, a first gas bypass valve, and second gas bypass valve, a feed control valve, and a controller. The primary receiver has a primary receiver operating pressure and is configured to collect a refrigerant circulated by the refrigeration system. The secondary receiver include...