ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,015, issued on June 24, was assigned to Quilt Systems Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Indoor unit mechanical structure for improved form factor" was invented by Matthew Aaron Knoll (Redwood City, Calif.), Leon Zilun Zhang (Redwood City, Calif.), Sami Ur-Rehman Shad (Fremont, Calif.) and Robert Irving Luan (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments of an indoor unit (e.g., an indoor unit for a heat pump system) include: a housing comprising an exit-point on a wall-side of the housing, the exit point comprising a refrigerant line and the housing having a height of less than 11 inches; a heat-exchanger connected ...