ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,339, issued on May 6, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for determining a thermal consumption of an energy system, energy management system and energy system" was invented by Thomas Baumgartner (Erlangen, Germany), Martin Kautz (Erlangen, Germany) and Lisa Wagner (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a method for determining the thermal consumption of an energy system having a thermal energy storage unit, wherein the energy system generates a total thermal energy within a time range comprising: determining a thermal charging energy of the thermal energy storage unit within the time ...