US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on Aug. 5 for "Model predictive maintenance system for building equipment" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,718, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Model predictive maintenance system for building equipment" was invented by Robert D. Turney (Watertown, Wis.) and Sudhi R. Sinha (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model predictive maintenance (MPM) system for building equipment includes an operational cost predictor configured to predict a cost of operating the building equipment over a duration of an optimization period, a maintenance cost predictor configured to predict a cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment over the duration of the optimization per...