ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,930, issued on April 7, was assigned to BELIMO Holding AG (Hinwil, Switzerland).

"HVAC system and related methods" was invented by Frank Lehnert (Ruti, Switzerland), Urs Niederhauser (Pfungen, Switzerland), Volkher Scholz (Zurich, Switzerland), Reto Walchli (Zurich, Switzerland), Christoph Neukom (Volketswil, Switzerland) and Christoph Rebsamen (Stafa, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an HVAC system (10) that comprises least one flow regulator (16), an electromechanical actuator (20), one or more sensors (34) associated with the actuator, and a controller (32) operatively connected with the actuator ...