ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,401, issued on July 21, was assigned to EXERGI PREDICTIVE LLC (Hugo, Minn.).

"Machine learning based energy use prediction" was invented by Harish Panneer Selvam (Littleton, Colo.), Andrew Kotz (Denver) and William Northrop (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using machine learning to predict the energy use of mobile actors such as a moving person or a mobile machine, as well as technologies for using such predictions. Energy use prediction for a moving person or a mobile machine can include an energy use prediction for a person or machine moving from one place to another regardless of the complexity of the cor...