US Patent Issued to CARRIER on Aug. 12 for "Air filter with deployment mechanism and control for HVAC applications" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,667, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Air filter with deployment mechanism and control for HVAC applications" was invented by Keunmo Kang (San Diego) and Marcin Cychowski (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes an air handling unit, a supply airflow damper to direct a supply airflow from the air handling unit to a conditioned space, and one or more filters selectively deployable across a flowpath of the air handling unit to remove one or more contaminants from the supply airflow prior to the supply airflow passing th...