ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,490, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Infection control tool for HVAC system" was invented by Jonathan D. Douglas (Mequon, Wis.), Kirk H. Drees (Cedarburg, Wis.) and Michael J. Risbeck (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infection control tool for a building HVAC system includes processing circuitry configured to receive one or more inputs defining a HVAC system configuration for each of a baseline scenario and one or more other scenarios. The processing circuitry is also configured to estimate infection risk and at least one of energy consumption or ope...