ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,272, issued on March 18, was assigned to Trane International Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for controlling indoor humidity" was invented by Youssef A. Jaber (Tyler, Texas), Don A. Schuster (Lindale, Texas), Nathan Smith (Tyler, Texas) and Jonathan Edward Thrift (Jacksonville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and related systems for controlling indoor relative humidity include (a) determining a target dew point temperature based on desired indoor conditions for the indoor space, and (b) determining an initial dew point temperature based on an initial set of current indoor conditions of the indoor space. The ...