ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,298, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ace Machine Design Inc. (Commerce, Calif.).

"Simultaneous heating and chilling heat pump system" was invented by Agustus Berman Shelander (Joshua Tree, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pump system for supplying a heated process fluid to a heated process and a chilled process fluid to a chilled process, including a compressor to compress a refrigerant, a hot heat exchanger to receive the heated process fluid, a cold heat exchanger to receive the chilled process fluid and an expansion device (22), wherein the compressor, hot heat exchanger, cold heat exchanger, and expansion device ci...