ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,020, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Trane International Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Determining loss of charge for climate control system" was invented by Jonathan E. Thrift (Jacksonville, Texas), Ulysses Grundler (Little Elm, Texas), Shriraj Nair (Bangalore, India), Aditya Shrivastava (Bangalore, India), Suresh Nukala (Bangalore, India), Arulkumar Kaliyaperumal (Mayiladuthurai, India), Wilson Samuel Jesudason Lawrence (Bangalore, India) and Gautam Peri (Simhachalam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for monitoring the refrigerant change level of a climate control syst...