ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,934, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Air handling unit and method using reinforcement learning model that replicates model predictive control simulation" was invented by Matthias Walczyk (Duesseldorf, Germany) and Andrew S. Pike (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a mixed air temperature value using a reinforcement learning model running on the edge controller. A temperature setpoint and a weather forecast are inputs to the reinforcement learning model. The method also includes controlling damper positions of an air handl...