US Patent Issued to Goodman Manufacturing on June 30 for "Systems and methods for defrost of heat pump systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,273, issued on June 30, was assigned to Goodman Manufacturing Co. LP (Waller, Texas).

"Systems and methods for defrost of heat pump systems" was invented by Michael F. Taras (The Woodlands, Texas) and David L. Boyea (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning ("HVAC") system include a supply damper, a return damper, and a defrost damper which are operable to control a supply airflow, a return airflow, and a defrost airflow to flow between a supply duct, a return duct, and an indoor heat exchanger without substantially flowing into and substantially cooling an ...