ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,503, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Dedicated outdoor air system configuration systems and methods" was invented by Earl John Rightmier (Marcy, N.Y.), Randi Rae Rizzuto (York, Pa.), Karla Daniela Alvarez Cavazos (Stewartstown, Pa.), Kajal Durga Prasad (Austin, Texas) and Ashish Nandkumar Bardia (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct outdoor air system may include an enclosure having an air inlet to direct environmental air into the enclosure, a heat exchanger section to receive the environmental air and direct conditioned air to an air outlet of the e...