ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,284, issued on March 18, was assigned to Trane International Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).
"Systems and methods for operating a furnace" was invented by James R. M. Neal (Tyler, Texas), Thomas Gort (Tyler, Texas), Wayne N. Kraft (Tyler, Texas), Sandeep Gowdagiri (Tyler, Texas), Neal Harrington (Tyler, Texas) and David Williams Jr. (Tyler, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and related systems for operating a furnace are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes activating a burner assembly and a first fan of the furnace to combust fuel and air and circulate combustion gases along a flow path extending through a heat exchan...