US Patent Issued to Copeland Comfort Control on Sept. 23 for "Energy management and smart thermostat learning methods and control systems" (American, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,158, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Copeland Comfort Control LP (St. Louis).

"Energy management and smart thermostat learning methods and control systems" was invented by Brian Richard Butler (Centerville, Ohio), Kevin Patrick Hallinan (Dayton, Ohio), Kefan Huang (Miamisburg, Ohio), Abdulrahman Alanezi (Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia), David Alexander Alfano (Lancaster, Pa.), Andrew M. Welch (Franklin, Ohio) and Stuart Keith Morgan (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of HVAC system performance monitoring using a computing device connected to at least one thermostat of an HVAC system in a building includes recei...