US Patent Issued to GENERAC POWER SYSTEMS on March 4 for "MPC for HVAC with thermal model selection" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,649, issued on March 4, was assigned to GENERAC POWER SYSTEMS INC. (Wis.).

"MPC for HVAC with thermal model selection" was invented by Thomas William Dupuis Stesco (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example control device includes memory storing a first thermal model of a building and a second thermal model of the building, and a processor connected to the memory. The processor is configured to select the first thermal model or the second thermal model as a selected thermal model, and execute model predictive control (MPC) using the selected thermal model to control a heating, cooling, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HV...