ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,891, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to DISTECH CONTROLS INC. (Brossard, Canada).

"Environment controller and method for inferring via a neural network one or more commands for controlling an appliance" was invented by Francois Gervais (Lachine, Canada), Carlo Masciovecchio (St-Isidore-de-Laparairie, Canada) and Dominique Laplante (St-Dominique, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and environment controller for inferring via a neural network one or more commands for controlling an appliance. A predictive model generated by a neural network training engine is stored by the environment controller. The environment controller re...