ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,921, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. (Atlanta).
"Air handler" was invented by Kevin Mercer (Danville, Ind.) and Ammar Khuzeima Sakarwala (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an air handler including a V-shaped round tube plate fin evaporator coil disposed within a cabinet, a first coil extension coupled to a first tube sheet at a first arm of the evaporator coil, a second coil extension coupled to a second tube sheet at a second arm of the evaporator coil, and a door disposed on a front portion of the cabinet to provide access to the evaporator coil. Each of the first coil...