( July 1, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT) -- MARSHALL, Texas — After a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel in early June found that a Texas federal judge improperly combined four patents related to a heating and ventilation system into a single infringement question on the verdict form and wrongly gave the jury incomplete instructions on patent eligibility and also vacated a jury’s award of more than $11.5 million in damages, the parties notified the Texas federal court that they had reached a settlement in the dispute....