US Patent Issued to Lennox Industries on Dec. 2 for "HVAC system with leak detection and method of use" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,993, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"HVAC system with leak detection and method of use" was invented by Rakesh Goel (Irving, Texas) and Siddarth Rajan (Addison, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an HVAC system includes receiving a first loss of charge parameter of refrigerant from a loss of charge sensor. The method includes determining that refrigerant leak diagnostics should be performed for the HVAC system based on a comparison of the first loss of charge parameter to a loss of charge threshold. The method includes turning off a compressor in a control panel un...