ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,677, issued on June 17, was assigned to Johnson Controls Technology Co. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Smart building manager" was invented by Clay G. Nesler (Brookfield, Wis.), Kirk H. Drees (Cedarburg, Wis.), James P. Kummer (Wales, Wis.), Derek Supple (Milwaukee), Marc D. Andraca (Whitefish Bay, Wis.), John I. Ruiz (New Berlin, Wis.) and Paul Harrison Rode (Tarrytown, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building manager includes a communications interface configured to receive time-of-use information from a smart energy grid and a processing circuit configured to process the time-of-use information received from the smart energy grid t...