US Patent Issued to TRANE INTERNATIONAL on Sept. 8 for "Heat pump and auxiliary heating with carbon reduction reset strategy" (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,871, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Heat pump and auxiliary heating with carbon reduction reset strategy" was invented by Juan M. Torres (Plymouth, Minn.), Lee R. Cline (West Salem, Wis.), Brian A. Kirkman (Shoreview, Minn.) and Ronnie R. Moffitt (Harrodsburg, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pump system includes a heat pump and an auxiliary heat source. A heating coefficient of performance is determined for the heat pump based on ambient outdoor air temperatures, and the heat pump is operated to heat a process fluid an output temperature based on the heating coefficient of per...