ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,006, issued on March 3, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"System and method for refrigerant leak detection" was invented by Mujibul Rehaman Mohammad (Kakinada, India), Ewin Ramster Melwin (Navi Mumbai, India), Karan Garg (Jagadhr, India), Norman Jack Blanton (Norman, Okla.) and Anand Mallinath Dulange (Solapur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for refrigerant leak detection includes one or more sensors configured to detect one or more parameters of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system. The system further includes one or more storage devices storing ...