US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Feb. 10 for "Relief vent for heating ventilation and air conditioning system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,079, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Relief vent for heating ventilation and air conditioning system" was invented by Steven Jay Leathorn (Fort Gratiot, Mich.) and Angel R. Munoz (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure relief valve includes a housing configured for installation into a duct opening of a duct, and a diffuser installed into the housing and movable between a closed position and an opened position along a valve axis. The diffuser includes a tubular diffuser body having an inlet opening at a first end, a diffuser cap located at a second end of the...