US Patent Issued to Copeland Comfort Control on May 20 for "Systems and methods for communication with motors in climate control systems" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,876, issued on May 20, was assigned to Copeland Comfort Control LP (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for communication with motors in climate control systems" was invented by John F. Broker (Warrenton, Mo.) and Richard N Brower (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An HVAC system includes an HVAC controller and a motor having five taps and a motor controller including a motor memory and a motor processor. The motor memory stores a first set of control data and instructions that cause the motor processor to drive the motor according to the first set of control data in response to energization of one or more of the five taps. The H...