US Patent Issued to JOHNSON CONTROLS LIGHT COMMERCIAL IP on June 17 for "Air dam for condensate drain pan" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,952, issued on June 17, was assigned to JOHNSON CONTROLS LIGHT COMMERCIAL IP GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Air dam for condensate drain pan" was invented by Cole Brennan Morrow (Derby, Kan.), Xianjin Cheng (Andover, Kan.), Johnny Huang (Wichita, Kan.) and Stephen C. Szczepanski (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a condensate drain pan configured to be positioned beneath a heat exchanger of the HVAC system, relative to gravity, and configured to collect condensate formed via operation of the heat exchanger. The condensate drain pan comprises ...