US Patent Issued on July 14 for "HVAC control device with equipment identification feature" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,723, issued on July 14.

"HVAC control device with equipment identification feature" was invented by Reid Alan Baldwin (Linden, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoned heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system is controlled via a home automation hub. The home automation hub communicates commands to an air handler via either a zoning interface module or a specially adapted thermostat. The zoning interface module or specially adapted thermostat are programmed to send commands to the air handler based on a default strategy whenever communication with the hub is lost, thereby mitigating the impact of a hub failure of communic...