US Patent Issued to Trane International on June 17 for "Control of a load facility in response to a demand event" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,733, issued on June 17, was assigned to Trane International Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Control of a load facility in response to a demand event" was invented by Udhaya Kumar Dayalan (White Bear Lake, Minn.), James Kenneth McKeever (Blaine, Minn.) and Brian A. Kirkman (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for controlling a load facility in response to a demand event. The method includes defining a plurality of resources of the load facility based on user input, establishing a response strategy for the demand event, and organizing the resources into the response strategy that specifies the resources and t...