ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,032, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NORTH CHINA MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING DESIGN & RESEARCH INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Tianjin, China).

"Optimal operation control method of air-source heat pump and gas-fired heater combined heating system" was invented by Wenxue Gao (Tianjin, China), Lin Yang (Tianjin, China), Yan Wang (Tianjin, China), Rongsong Yan (Tianjin, China), Yingjie Hu (Tianjin, China), Qingwei Miao (Tianjin, China) and Mingchang Yang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an optimal operation control method of the air-source heat pump and gas-fired heater combined heating system, including ...