US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 16 for "Decoupled and coordinated control of refrigeration climate control systems" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,438, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Decoupled and coordinated control of refrigeration climate control systems" was invented by Nicholas A. Gregorich (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for coordinated operation of refrigerant climate control systems in an optimized manner. In an example process, climate control information for a plurality of refrigerant climate control systems is maintained. An energy optimization signal is received that describes a characteristic associated with an electrical energy source. A set of control signals is generated for a s...