ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,017, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Systems and methods for controlling equipment based on chiller efficiency assessments" was invented by Zdenek Schindler (Prague), Jiri Rojicek (Prague) and Jakub Malanik (Prague).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assessing an efficiency of a chiller. The method includes: performing, using a processor of a computer system, an energy balance check on operational data of a chiller in a chiller group; selecting, using the processor and based on the energy balance check, a reference chiller from one or more other chillers in the chiller group...