ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,915, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Pacific Link LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Autofill overfill protection temperature sensing air conditioning refrigerant recharge" was invented by Alexander M. Kuo (Dallas) and Vincent F. Carrubba (Baldwin, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for servicing a vehicle an air-conditioning system of a vehicle comprises initiating refrigerant filling into the vehicle air-conditioning system. The method also comprises, after initiating the refrigerant filling, tracking a variation in a rate-of-change of the output temperature of the vehicle air-conditioning system measured by a temperature senso...