US Patent Issued to TRANE INTERNATIONAL on June 24 for "Efficiently routing excess air flow" (Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,024, issued on June 24, was assigned to TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Efficiently routing excess air flow" was invented by Anthony W. Bruno (Blaine, Minn.), Aaron E. Opatz (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Christopher R. Vause (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Architectures and techniques are presented that can more efficiently route excess air flow by intelligently selecting the zones to which the excess air flow is to be routed. Excess air flow results from an HVAC device providing (e.g., at a minimum setting) a volume of air that is greater than what is demanded by a zone that triggers activation of the HVAC devic...