US Patent Issued to Lennox Industries on April 7 for "System and method for providing cooling during refrigerant leak" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,924, issued on April 7, was assigned to Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"System and method for providing cooling during refrigerant leak" was invented by Rakesh Goel (Irving, Texas), Siddarth Rajan (Addison, Texas) and Vijay Kumar Sathyamurthi (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration system to provide cooling during refrigerant leak is disclosed. The system detects a refrigerant leak by detecting that a refrigerant concentration is more than a threshold concentration on at least two occasions. The system executes a mitigation plan until the concentration of refrigerant is less than the threshold conce...