US Patent Issued to Flo Energy Solutions on Sept. 8 for "Secondary outside air path for a heat pump" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,866, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Flo Energy Solutions Inc. (Toronto).

"Secondary outside air path for a heat pump" was invented by Bryan Elliott (Toronto), Saman Zamanzadeh Haratbar (Newmarket, Canada), Laura Janke Semidey (Woodstock, Ga.) and Peter Graham Reist (Aurora, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pump is provided that is alternately operable in a heating mode for heating an interior space under cold or cool ambient conditions and in a cooling or dehumidification mode for cooling the interior space under warm or hot ambient conditions. The heat pump has a direct expansion (DX) coil that operates as a condense...