ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,274, issued on March 18, was assigned to RESIDEO LLC (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Analog HVAC controller including dial for setting temperature set points" was invented by Christopher R. Jones (Minneapolis), Jaymeson Tucker (Minneapolis), Michael Crites (Minneapolis) and Christopher Heintzelman (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a device controls a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system within a building. The device includes an analog display including a set of markers. Additionally, the devices includes processing circuitry configured to determine whether one or both of a cooling set poi...