ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,517, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ariston S.P.A. (Fabriano, Italy).
"Energy consumption estimator for building climate conditioning systems" was invented by Francesco Fedecostante (Ancona, Italy) and Matteo Gianfelici (Ancona, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for estimating the energy required for temperature control in a building. The method comprising a training phase on data from a plurality of buildings, adaptation phase to a target building, and estimation phase. The training phase comprises calculating a parameter k which summarizes the thermal characteristics of the building. Subsequen...