US Patent Issued to Goodman Manufacturing on Feb. 10 for "HVAC authentication system and method" (Texas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,685, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Goodman Manufacturing Co. LP (Waller, Texas).

"HVAC authentication system and method" was invented by Adway Dogra (Cypress, Texas) and Roberto Flores (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication method and system for an HVAC system are provided. Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to an access-control or authentication system for an HVAC system, in which access to certain functions of the HVAC system is conditioned on a user performing certain basic operational instructions for the HVAC system in a provided sequence, thereby providing evidence that the user ...