ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,014, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Tube joint for HVAC system" was invented by Amr Aly (Wichita, Kan.), Elmer Wayne Romero (Oxford, Kan.), D'Marcus Letrey Garrett (Wichita, Kan.) and Xianjin Cheng (Andover, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suction tube for a heat exchanger system includes a first tube segment and a second tube segment. The first tube segment includes a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is configured to fluidly couple to a heat exchanger of the heat exchanger system, and wherein the second end comprises a first alignment feature. ...