ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,318, issued on March 24, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD (Osaka, Japan).

"Evaluation device and program" was invented by Yoshihiro Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan) and Shuji Furui (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Object] To correct a power consumption record in a period in which energy-saving control is performed and a power consumption record in a period in which the energy-saving control is not performed in accordance with a purpose of the comparison, and to enable evaluation of power consumption from various viewpoints.[Solution] A terminal device configured to evaluate power consumption of equipment includes a communic...