ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,783, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"System and method for making a building carbon neutral" was invented by Rohan Ajinkya Mehta (Hyderabad, India) and Venkata Satya Pratap Kumar Dunna (New Hafeezpet, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An open loop cooling apparatus is provided. The open loop cooling apparatus includes gas capturing and collecting elements, an expansion valve receptive of pressurized gas from the gas capturing and collecting elements and configured to expand the pressurized gas, an evaporator coil downstream from the expansion valve through which the pressurized gas, ha...