ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,989, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Environmental control system" was invented by Deepak Kumar (Bangalore, India), Prashant Deshpande (Bangalore, India), Muralidhar Manavalan (Bangalore, India) and Prakash V S (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a turbine comprising an input port and mechanically coupled to a motor-generator and a compressor and control circuitry configured to determine whether a pressure of a fluid at the input port of the turbine is less than or equal to than a threshold pressure. In response to determining that the pressure ...