US Patent Issued to Octopus Energy Heating on March 11 for "Heating installations, methods and systems" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,748, issued on March 11, was assigned to Octopus Energy Heating Ltd. (London).

"Heating installations, methods and systems" was invented by Peter Konowalczyk (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating installation for premises includes a controller coupled to an air source heat pump; a premises heating arrangement; and a local weather sensing arrangement. The controller is configured to receive weather forecast data from an external source, and local weather status information from the local weather sensing arrangement. The controller is also configured to set a control algorithm based on both the weather forecast data and the...