ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,928, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Foshan, China) and MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Foshan, China).

"Energy-saving control method and apparatus, server device, and household appliance for demand response timing" was invented by Min Pang (Foshan, China), Xiaoyong Hu (Foshan, China), Jiwei Hei (Foshan, China), Qifeng Fan (Foshan, China), Liwei Luo (Foshan, China), Chuang Lv (Foshan, China), Biao Dai (Foshan, China) and Jingchun Liu (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy-saving control method includes obtaining a demand instruction configured to indicate an energy-saving opera...