ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,502, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BELIMO HOLDING AG (Hinwil, Switzerland).
"Controlled hydronic distribution system" was invented by Nathan F. Rothman (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Ian Dempster (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydronic distribution system obtains, in real time, valve operating information from one or more valves arranged in a network, executes a speed determination algorithm which processes the valve operating information to determine a desired speed for one or more pumps to maintain a desired amount of process fluid flow of a process fluid to plural coils, and sets a speed of the one or more pumps, based...