ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,796, issued on June 17, was assigned to UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTRE IRELAND (Cork, Ireland).

"Pack management system for environmental control system" was invented by Giusi Quartarone (Mayfield, Ireland), Lance R. Bartosz (Granby, Mass.) and Catherine Thibaud (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioning pack management system for controlling distribution of a predetermined amount of conditioned air from a system comprising two or more air conditioning packs, the pack management system comprising a management unit arranged to proportion the predetermined amount of conditioned air to be provided by o...