ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,489, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Budderfly Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).

"Dynamic real time average monthly energy management system" was invented by Albert Subbloie (Orange, Conn.) and Paul Schmidt (Rocky Hill, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of dynamically calculating average monthly energy use through a system of weights attributed to business, environmental, and operational variables. The system applies machine learning to improve upon its estimations by learning the correlations of equipment and operational factors to the overall equipment use."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2023, under Application No...