ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,291, issued on March 24, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Antenna diversity implementation for remote sensors in an HVAC system" was invented by Ron Kielkowski (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a sensor in wireless communication with a thermostat of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system including: activating a first sensor antenna and a second sensor antenna to detect a first wireless signal transmitted from the thermostat of the HVAC system; detecting the first wireless signal using the first sensor antenna and the second sensor antenna; determining a f...