ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,846, issued on July 29, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Control methods and systems using external 3D modeling and schedule-based computing" was invented by Jason David Zedlitz (Milpitas, Calif.), Ranojoy Dutta (Allen, Texas), Yuyang Ying (Fremont, Calif.), Erich Robert Klawuhn (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Stephen Clark Brown (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System for controlling tinting of one or more zones of windows in a building based on clear sky models for the building site maintained on a cloud network."

The patent was filed on Feb. 29, 2024, under Application No. 18/592,365.

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