ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,871, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for forecasting building power consumption" was invented by Naveen Kumar Thokala (Hyderabad, India), Vishnu Brindavanam (Hyderabad, India), Spoorthy Paresh (Bangalore, India) and Mariswamy Girish Chandra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power consumption forecasting plays a key role in the efficient operation of a building energy management system to assess energy demands of building, and at the same time, help electrical utilities in planning their supply operations. However, no state-of-the-arts are available f...