ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,567, issued on June 3, was assigned to Quilt Systems Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Heat pump systems utilizing distributed control systems" was invented by Matthew Aaron Knoll (Redwood City, Calif.) and Gwendolyn Willemijn van der Linden (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Heat pump systems, control systems for heat pumps, and methods of controlling heat pumps utilizing distributed control techniques are described herein. Examples of the control systems include multiple control devices distributed amongst a heat pump system. A first of the control devices is configured as a main control device to execute a model predi...