ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,934, issued on July 29, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building HVAC system with multi-objective optimization control" was invented by Michael J. Risbeck (Madison, Wis.), Kirk H. Drees (Cedarburg, Wis.) and Jonathan D. Douglas (Mequon, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment operable to affect an environmental condition of a building is configured to obtain predictive models that predict values of an energy control objective and an air quality control objective as a function of control decision variables for the ...