US Patent Issued to Copeland on April 29 for "Combined cooling, heating, and power system" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,101, issued on April 29, was assigned to Copeland LP (Sidney, Ohio).

"Combined cooling, heating, and power system" was invented by Andrew M. Welch (Sidney, Ohio) and Brian R. Butler (Sidney, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating system of a building includes: a solar heater configured to receive sunlight and to at least one of absorb heat into a refrigerant and augment heat absorbed into the refrigerant; a compressor configured to compress the refrigerant that vaporized via absorption of heat; a first heat exchanger configured to transfer heat from the refrigerant to water; an expansion valve configured to reduce at least one ...