US Patent Issued to THERMO KING on Oct. 27 for "Evaporator expansion valve stablization" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,890, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to THERMO KING LLC (Minneapolis).

"Evaporator expansion valve stablization" was invented by Sean Francis (Cologne, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a climate control circuit includes detecting one or more operating parameters of an evaporator expansion valve ("EXV") in the climate control circuit, and determining operation stability of the EXV based on the one or more operating parameters of the EXV. The method also includes opening a bypass pathway in response to determining the operation of the EXV is unstable, the bypass pathway includes an intermediate heat exchang...