ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,489, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. (Atlanta).
"Enhanced heat pump defrost without use of auxiliary heat" was invented by Christopher Puranen (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for controlling a heat pump system are presented. A method may include identifying, by a first device, a signal received from a second device associated with an outdoor portion of the heat pump system, the signal indicating that the heat pump system is performing a defrost operation; reducing, based on the defrost operation, a speed of a fan associated with an indoor portion of the heat pump system; identify...