ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,147, issued on March 25, was assigned to Trane International Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).
"Systems and methods for indoor air temperature control for heat pump systems" 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 an indoor air temperature for a heat pump system are disclosed. The method includes (a) determining an outdoor coil temperature of an outdoor heat exchanger and a speed of a compressor of a heat pump system, (b) determining a target indoor coi...