US Patent Issued to Copeland Comfort Control on April 15 for "Systems and methods for controlling inducer motor speed" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,580, issued on April 15, was assigned to Copeland Comfort Control LP (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for controlling inducer motor speed" was invented by Harshal Manik Pawar (Pune, India) and John F. Broker (Warrenton, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for controlling inducer motor speed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes changing stator voltage of an inducer motor (e.g., by changing a firing angle of a triac, using a transistor, a silicon controlled rectifier or semiconductor controlled rectifier (SCR), other switching device, etc.); determining actual inducer ...