ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,088, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Operation of environmental control system during thermostat failure" was invented by Srinivas Ramisetti (Telangana, India), Ravi Kumar Kandhi (Telangana, India) and Ramakrishna Bodepudi (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an environmental control system, the method including at a thermostat, identifying a controller in the environmental control system as a secondary controller; training the secondary controller by transferring setpoints from the thermostat to the secondary controller; detecting a failure in the thermo...