ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,089, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DiversiTech Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Automatic wire detection for smart HVAC controllers" was invented by Waseem Amer (Islamabad), Muhammad Zeeshan Ashraf (Islamabad), Aftab Farooqi (Redmond, Wash.), Anees Ahmed Jarral (Islamabad) and Umair Nawaz Khan (Punjab, Pakistan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for smart HVAC controllers that is capable of automatically detecting and handling all HVAC control wires, whether the HVAC system is a single or dual transformer system. The system comprises a channel selector for selecting the various channels of an HVAC system for detection, one or more vol...