ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,955, issued on June 17, was assigned to SMITHGROUP Cos. INC. (Detroit).
"Air handling unit with movable coils" was invented by Elena Gowdy Charming (Arlington, Va.) and Ionel Petrus (Silver Spring, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building air handling unit includes a housing defining an air passageway, and a plurality of coil banks arranged in layers of adjacent pairs within the air passageway. At least some of the adjacent pairs are swivel mounted with the housing and may rotate relative to the housing to alter orientation of the at least some of the adjacent pairs relative to flow of air through the air passageway."
The paten...