ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,297, issued on Feb. 18.
"Cooling and heating methodology and systems" was invented by Varun A. Shah (Danville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for heating and/or cooling a structure including are described. The system may determine that a current indoor temperature is higher than both the current outdoor temperature and the target indoor temperature. Based on the determination, the system (in a cooling mode) may determine that a window opening criteria is met for opening one or more windows. Responsive to determining that the window opening criteria has been met, the system may instruct a window control mechanism to ...