ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,682, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Air Distribution Technologies IP LLC (Milwaukee).
"Displacement diffuser" was invented by Nicholas James Searle (Cumming, Ga.), Kenneth Jay Loudermilk (Johns Creek, Ga.), Matthew Brent McLaurin (Carrollton, Texas), Ryan Michael Perkinson (Plano, Texas) and Brian Joseph Graham (Mansfield, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diffuser for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a housing defining a plenum chamber, where the housing comprises a diffusion plate configured to direct a first air flow into the plenum chamber and to discharge a second air flow from the ple...