US Patent Issued to Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP on July 14 for "Systems and methods for operating an HVAC system" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,717, issued on July 14, was assigned to Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH (Shaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for operating an HVAC system" was invented by Andrew Michael Boyd (Wichita, Kan.), Jeremy Ryan Smith (Park City, Kan.), Steven A. Tice (Wichita, Kan.) and Mason Sloan DeWald (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a heat exchanger configured to receive a working fluid and place the working fluid in a heat exchange relationship with an air flow directed across the heat exchanger, a switch configured to detect an operating parameter o...