ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,291, issued on March 11, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Central energy system with expert subplant models" was invented by Shawn August Schlagenhaft (Fond du Lac, Wis.) and Ryan Craig Beaty (Milwaukee).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central plant includes a plurality of subplants and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to obtain an expert model associated with a first subplant of the plurality of subplants. The expert model includes a map of values of independent variables to one or more dependent variables. The circuitry is also configured to receive input data indicating input...