ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,436, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Dynamic ventilation control for a building" was invented by Bhavesh Gupta (Niantic, Conn.), Manish Sharma (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Prabhat Ranjan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Appropriate ventilation for a building space while maintaining building comfort includes tracking one or more interior environmental conditions within the building space and one or more exterior environmental conditions outside of the building space during operation of the HVAC system. An environmental model for the building space is learned over time based at...