ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,316, issued on July 21, was assigned to RectorSeal LLC (Houston).

"Inline air filter apparatuses, systems and methods" was invented by Gregg W. Burnett (Royse City, Texas), Joshua Pulis (Leawood, Kan.) and Fadi Hurtubise (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods compensate for static pressure created by a very high-efficiency air filter in a heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system by disposing a very high-efficiency air filter in a return to a HVAC system air handling unit (AHU), disposing a variable speed air impeller in the return to the HVAC AHU, and calibrating a speed of the variable speed air...