ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,091, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for predicting occupancy for one building using a model trained at another building" was invented by Rohil Pal (Lal Bangla Kanpur, India), Navneet Kumar (Gurgaon, India), Deepika Sandeep (Bangalore, India), Prabhat Ranjan (Bangalore, India) and Bhavesh Gupta (Niantic, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Building Management System (BMS) may be controlled in accordance with predicted occupancy using a trained model. A model is trained by providing the model with time stamped environmental data and corresponding time stamped o...