ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,482, issued on April 14, was assigned to Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Systems and methods for operating a furnace" was invented by Rakesh Mathew (Wichita, Kan.) and Andrew Michael Boyd (Wichita, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a control system configured to initiate an operating cycle of a furnace of the HVAC system at an initial operating stage in response to a call for heating, monitor a duration of time associated with the operating cycle of the furnace to satisfy the call for heating, adjust the initial operating...