US Patent Issued to JOHNSON CONTROLS LIGHT COMMERCIAL IP on July 15 for "Systems and methods for operating a furnace system" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,846, issued on July 15, was assigned to JOHNSON CONTROLS LIGHT COMMERCIAL IP GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for operating a furnace system" was invented by Madhuka Manuranga Jayarathne (Wichita, Kan.), Daniel W. Davis II (Wichita, Kan.) and Frank D. Ashby (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furnace system includes a heat exchanger and a burner assembly including a burner enclosure fluidly coupled to the heat exchanger. The burner assembly is configured to receive a fluid, ignite the fluid to produce combustion byproducts, and direct the combustion byproducts to the heat exchanger. The fur...