ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,155, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Thermostat with epidemic control ventilation" was invented by Sayan Chakraborty (Brookfield, Wis.) and Aaron D. Wagner (Menomonee Falls, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for controlling HVAC equipment in a building includes a processing circuit configured to receive an occupancy schedule indicating at least one of a first occupied period or a last unoccupied period for a space in the building for a schedule period and receive a user input indicating the space should be purged based on occupancy. The controller s...