ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,381, issued on May 19, was assigned to Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S. Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).
"Refrigerated dryer power saving controls" was invented by Lalitkumar Jamnadas Vaishnav (Gujarat, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for controlling a refrigerated dryer of a gas compressor system. In an aspect, a control system, including a controller and a flow sensor, selectively operates in a power saving mode in which the controller shuts down a refrigerant compressor included in the dryer system when the flow sensor indicates that no compressed gas is flowing through the dryer. The control system uses input from a ...