US Patent Issued to CARRIER on Jan. 27 for "Furnace monitoring and control based on rate of flue gas temperature change" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,229, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Furnace monitoring and control based on rate of flue gas temperature change" was invented by Paul M. Haydock (Zionsville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative example embodiment of a method of operating a furnace configured for heating a space to be occupied by at least one individual includes determining a rate of change of a flue gas temperature of a flue gas vented from the furnace, determining a difference between the determined rate of change and a predetermined acceptable rate for a current furnace operating condition, and adjustin...