US Patent Issued to JOHNSON CONTROLS LIGHT COMMERCIAL IP on Aug. 26 for "Reversible valve for HVAC system" (Pennsylvania, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,929, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to JOHNSON CONTROLS LIGHT COMMERCIAL IP GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Reversible valve for HVAC system" was invented by Ryan L. Snider (York, Pa.), Nicholas P. Mislak (Bel Air, Md.) and Karla D. Alvarez Cavazos (York, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a reversible valve having an outlet configured to direct refrigerant to a reheat heat exchanger of the HVAC system. The reversible valve is further configured to be in a first configuration to direct the refrigerant through a refrigerant circuit in a first flow dir...