US Patent Issued to SMITHGROUP Cos. on April 15 for "Intelligent building management systems" (Maryland, Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,951, issued on April 15, was assigned to SMITHGROUP Cos. INC. (Detroit).

"Intelligent building management systems" was invented by Ionel Petrus (Silver Spring, Md.), Elena Gowdy Charming (Arlington, Va.), Ma Melissa Lim (Springfield, Va.) and Stet Sanborn (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hierarchical resource analysis system, for a building that has a plurality of zones each with a corresponding resource arranged to alter an environment of the zone, includes one or more processors that implement a plurality of causal agents and a causal coordinator. Each of the causal agents reports to the causal coordinator parameter...