ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,288, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Arrangement for refrigerant leak management" was invented by D'Marcus Letrey Garrett (Wichita, Kan.), Elmer Wayne Romero (Oxford, Kan.), Amr Aly (Wichita, Kan.) and Selin Nur Ergul (Wichita, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit includes a casing, a heat exchanger disposed in the casing and comprising a V-shaped arrangement having (e.g., formed by) a first leg and a second leg, a delta plate extending from the first leg to the second leg, and a refrigerant sensor configure...