ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,314, issued on July 21, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method and system for controlling a fresh air intake of an air handling unit of an HVAC system" was invented by Vishwanath Gupta (Ranchi, India), Kanchan Aggarwal (Karnatka, India), Deepika Sandeep (Bangalore, India), Rohil Pal (Kanpur, India), Madhav Kamath (Karnataka, India), Bhavesh S. Gupta (Cumming, Ga.) and Prabhat Ranjan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Controlling a fresh air intake includes determining a fresh air intake damper position based on the supply air flowrate, a measure of energy delivered to the supply air flow...