US Patent Issued to Cornell University on Feb. 17 for "Scalable control of heat pumps with limited smart-home devices" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,634, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Scalable control of heat pumps with limited smart-home devices" was invented by Zachary Lee (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Ke Zhang (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device. The processing device comprises a processor coupled to a memory, and is configured to obtain information characterizing operation of a heat pump at a particular energy usage location, and to process the obtained information in a reinforcement learning agent to generate at least one control signal for controlling the heat pump...