ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,841, issued on July 15, was assigned to GeoFlo Cooling Inc. (New Paltz, N.Y.).

"Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system and method" was invented by Damien Semel-DeFeo (New Paltz, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes a method for when the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) is called for by a thermostat, the GeoFlo HVAC System first exhausts a heat sink in the basement, before calling for an evaporator to be activated. When the heat sink in the basement is cooling the conditioned space, by geothermally dispersing heat into the earth, the GeoFlo HVAC turns off the evaporator. Alter...