ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,752, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ENERlite Consulting Inc. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Automated calibration of building energy models" was invented by Ladan Ghobad (Sacramento, Calif.) and Peng Yin (Lafayette, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a system for automated calibration of building energy models may be configured to obtain a first building energy model for a building, generate plurality of sensitivity values by determining, for each of the plurality of variables, a respective sensitivity value that indicates a sensitivity of an output of the first building energy model to variations in the respective var...