US Patent Issued to Measured Air Performance on Sept. 8 for "System and methods for controlling laboratory fume hood minimum airflow" (New Hampshire Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,449, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Measured Air Performance LLC (Merrimack, N.H.).

"System and methods for controlling laboratory fume hood minimum airflow" was invented by Eric Desrochers (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus are described which can safely reduce a laboratory fume hood's minimum airflow and energy consumption when it is determined that the fume hood is not in active use, based on a condition monitoring approach. The condition monitoring approach may incorporate a combination of setback criteria to reliably determine if the fume hood is or is not in use. When a determina...