ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,615, issued on June 17, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building equipment control system with automated horizon selection" was invented by Santle Camilus Kulandai Samy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Young M. Lee (Old Westbury, N.Y.) and Michael J. Risbeck (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes automatically selecting a prediction horizon used by the predictive model by performing evaluations of model performance at successively narrower ranges of possible prediction horizons until the prediction horizon is determined based on results of the evaluations. The method may ...