ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,560, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Building energy system with predictive control of waterside and airside HVAC equipment" was invented by Robert D. Turney (Watertown, Wis.) and Nishith R. Patel (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A predictive controller for a building energy system obtains a function that defines an amount of energy consumed by both waterside equipment and airside equipment during a time period as a summation of multiple equipment-specific energy components including a waterside energy component indicating an amount of energy consumed b...