US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Oct. 27 for "Building controller with lateral side shielding" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,626, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Building controller with lateral side shielding" was invented by Baofeng Dong (Charlotte, N.C.), Chao Chen (Charlotte, N.C.), Zhongwei Zhu (Charlotte, N.C.), Ke Wei Han (Charlotte, N.C.) and Hua Tang (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermostat includes a display having a metal backing, a printed circuit board having a ground plane, and one or more electrical components mounted to the printed circuit board in a shielded region on the printed circuit board between the ground plane and the metal backing. One or more conductive side ...