US Patent Issued to Copeland Comfort Control on Aug. 12 for "Electronic pressure augmented modulation" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,638, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Copeland Comfort Control LP (St. Louis).

"Electronic pressure augmented modulation" was invented by Weston S. Capper (House Springs, Mo.), Daniel L Furmanek (Ballwin, Mo.) and Ryan Jensen (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of systems including electronic differential pressure sensors for electronically controlling stepper gas valves to modulate fuel flow in PAM combustion systems (e.g., PAM furnace systems, etc.). Also disclosed are exemplary methods for electronically modulating fuel flow in pressure augmented modulation (PAM) combustion systems."

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