ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,427, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Housing of an HVAC system" was invented by Amol V. Khedekar (Pune, India), Robert A. Amick (York, Pa.), Shivchandra V. Nagime (Latur, India), Henry L. Urey (York, Pa.) and Mahantesh Honnamane (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frame segment for a frame of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a protrusion formed on an interior side of the frame segment and configured to engage with a first panel of the HVAC system, a first recess formed at an exterior side, opposite the interior side,...