US Patent Issued to JOHNSON CONTROLS LIGHT COMMERCIAL IP on May 27 for "Condensate collection assembly" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,328, issued on May 27, was assigned to JOHNSON CONTROLS LIGHT COMMERCIAL IP GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Condensate collection assembly" was invented by Elmer Wayne Romero (Oxford, Kan.), Xianjin Cheng (Andover, Kan.), Stephen C. Szczepanski (Wichita, Kan.), Cole B. Morrow (Derby, Kan.) and Satish V. Churi (Gadag, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a condensate collection assembly having a drain pan configured to collect condensate generated by a heat exchanger of the HVAC system. The condensate collection assembly also includes a support member ...