ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,897, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Arbnco Ltd (Glasgow, Great Britain).
"Estimating energy consumption for a building using dilated convolutional neural networks" was invented by Mahnameh Taheri (Glasgow, Great Britain), Colin Parry (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Alan Wegienka (Glasgow, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for estimating energy consumption data for a building. A system for estimating an energy use of a building uses a dilated convolutional neural network architecture to receive time-series data for the building and to predict one or more time-series data points representing an estimated...