ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,020, issued on June 24.
"Smart controls for hybrid refrigeration cycles" was invented by Barry Richard Brooks (Pilot Hill, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for controlling a hybrid space-conditioning system (HSCS) that comprises a two-phase fluid circuit and an energy-exchange resource connected in parallel to the two-phase fluid circuit. During operation, a computing mechanism tracks operating characteristics for the system. The computing mechanism receives a temperature forecast and uses tracked characteristics and forecasts to predict watt usage for a subsequent time interval and ...