ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,296, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Simulation device, simulation method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Taiki Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Tomooki Ukiana (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acquisition unit (21) acquires a simulation period indicating an object period for which simulations of amounts of energy consumption in a building are to be done, a parallel number indicating the number of the simulations that are to be performed in parallel, and a holiday condition indicating nonoperating days of an air conditioning system installed in the building. A planning unit (22) split...