ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,238, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BELIMO HOLDING AG (Hinwil, Switzerland).
"Device and method for controlling an orifice of a valve in an HVAC system" was invented by Stefan Mischler (Wald, Switzerland) and Volkher Scholz (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an orifice of a valve in an HVAC system to regulate a flow of a primary fluid through a primary side of a thermal energy exchanger of the HVAC system and thereby adjust a thermal energy transfer by the thermal energy exchanger from the primary fluid to a secondary fluid, flowing through a secondary side of the thermal energy exchanger,...