ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,267, issued on June 10, was assigned to CONNECTM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"HVAC controller and a method for testing HVAC systems" was invented by Nayeem M. Hussain (Union City, N.J.), Mahesh Choudhury (Westborough, Mass.), Bhaskar Panigrahi (Southborough, Mass.), Vinay Kumar (Westborough, Mass.), Kevin Stateham (Oxford, Mass.) and Ryan T. Fant (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An HVAC controller is provided having a plurality of control terminals for connecting to corresponding control terminals on an indoor unit for an HVAC system, at least one controller power terminal for connecting to a power terminal...