US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Nov. 3 for "Energy recovery in a make-up air module of an air conditioner appliance" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,975, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Energy recovery in a make-up air module of an air conditioner appliance" was invented by Robert Jules Lafleur (Louisville, Ky.) and Timothy Scott Shaffer (La Grange, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner unit includes a bulkhead defining an indoor portion and an outdoor portion, an intake aperture and an exhaust aperture defined in the bulkhead, an intake fan fluidly coupled to the intake aperture for urging a flow of make-up air through the intake aperture into the indoor portion and an exhaust fan fluidly coupled to the exha...