ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,160, issued on April 8, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Conservatoire National Des Arts et Metiers (Paris).
"RST smith predictor" was invented by Franco Falconi (Paris), Stefan Capitaneanu (Limours, France), Herve Guillard (Paris) and Tarek Raissi (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A predictive control method and system are provided for controlling a device or system. The control method and system involves receiving a setpoint signal as input; and performing closed loop control of the device or system by outputting a control signal according to the setpoint signal and a response mode...