ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,520, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Ambi Labs Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"HVAC control system and method" was invented by Shang Hsin Julian Lee (Hong Kong) and Martin Raphael Pierre Noel Boissier (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A HVAC control system comprising a user interface adapted to receive comfort feedback from a user. A processor is adapted to receive the comfort feedback and input data corresponding to one or more comfort factors and respective values of the comfort factors. The processor is adapted to build a comfort model for the user based on the comfort feedback and the input data, with the comfort model correlating ...