ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,720, issued on July 14, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for managing temperature control in an indoor environment" was invented by Charles Nading (Indianapolis), Bradley Powell (Indianapolis) and Robert Smalley (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure describe systems and methods for managing temperature control in an indoor environment, having a plurality of zones, by a Heating Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The method comprises, for each zone, detecting a current temperature value of a corresponding zone, comparing the current tempera...