US Patent Issued to Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP on Jan. 13 for "Staging algorithm for two stage heating/cooling equipment" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,977, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH (Shaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Staging algorithm for two stage heating/cooling equipment" was invented by D Gamage Methmini U M Sumanasekara (Wichita, Kan.), Andrew M. Boyd (Wichita, Kan.) and Theresa N. Gillette (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a two stage heat exchanger and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a call from a thermostat and execute, in response to the call, an adaptive staging algorithm. The adaptive staging algorithm is configured to determine, in response to a recent cycle of the two stage h...