Nortek Global HVAC was granted a U.S. patent for a method of controlling and stabilizing hot gas reheat circuits in air conditioning systems.
Patent number U.S. 10,066,860 B2 lists the inventors as four Nortek employees: James Patrick Downie, controls department manager; Richard Brian Reed, design engineer; Richard Gerard Blasko, director of engineering; John Patrick McKissack, P.E., product manager; and a former Nortek cooling research engineer, Avinash Keshavrao Gholap, Ph.D.