ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,669, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to RESIDEO LLC (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Wall mounted bypass humidifier" was invented by Steven L Wolff (Hamel, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a device is configured to add moisture to an air stream of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system configured to regulate one or more parameters of a space within a building. The device includes a housing that defines at least part of an air path, where the air path is configured to carry the moisture to the air stream of the HVAC system, where the housing includes a bottom housing formed as a single unit and a top h...