ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,164, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).
"HVAC door with bleed port" was invented by Jayanthi Iyer (Northville, Mich.), Michael R. Farris (Howell, Mich.) and Senthil Raja Alagesan (Tamil Nadu, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid distribution door for an air-handling system of a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system includes an air-directing wall having a first major surface and an oppositely arranged second major surface, a bleed port projecting from the second major surface of the air-directing wall, and a bleed path formed through the fluid distribution door. The bleed path ...