US Patent Issued to Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP on April 8 for "System and method for faulting to return air sensor" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,558, issued on April 8, was assigned to Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"System and method for faulting to return air sensor" was invented by Madhuka Manuranga Jayarathne (Wichita, Kan.), Thomas D. Chase (Rose Hill, Kan.), Theresa N. Gillette (Wichita, Kan.) and Andrew Michael Boyd (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system faults to a return air sensor integrated within a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit. The system transmits a signal to a remote sensor. The system determines that a return signal is not received from the remote sensor. The system obta...