ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,829, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Sound attenuator for a terminal unit" was invented by Abhijeet R. Salunkke (Pune, India), Tarun Dogra (Jhajjar, India), Sushilkumar D. Gorad (Pune, India), Parmeshwar G. Patil (Pune, India), Timothy J. Wilson (St Petersburg, Fla.), Vinothkumar Muthu (Ramanathapuram, India) and Tyler J. Williams (Seminole, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal unit for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a housing defining a plenum and having a first panel and a second panel disposed opposite each other. Th...