US Patent Issued to Lennox Industries on July 28 for "Mitigation sleeve" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,940, issued on July 28, was assigned to Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Mitigation sleeve" was invented by Surendran Ramasamy (Chennai, India), Glenn William Kowald (Carrollton, Texas), Praveen Kumar Vallurupalli (Frisco, Texas), Darcy Quentin Easterling (Flower Mound, Texas), James Frank Timbs (Winona, Miss.), Rakesh Goel (Irving, Texas) and Ben Alcocer (Terrell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerant leak mitigation sleeve includes a flexible sleeve body comprising bellow elements, wherein the flexible sleeve body includes a cavity configured to contain refrigerant fluid and the bellow elements are configur...