US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on May 27 for "Time-varying reinforcement learning for robust adaptive estimator design with application to HVAC flow control" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,276, issued on May 27, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Time-varying reinforcement learning for robust adaptive estimator design with application to HVAC flow control" was invented by Saleh Nabi (Wilmington, Mass.), Mouhacine Benosman (Boston) and Saviz Mowlavi (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method using a reinforcement learning trained reduced order estimator (RL-trained ROE) and a closure model is provided for controlling a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system including actuators. The method uses a processor coupled with ...