US Patent Issued to ICF INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 3 for "Electrical load management using thermal comfort" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,984, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ICF INTERNATIONAL INC. (Fairfax, Va.).

"Electrical load management using thermal comfort" was invented by Ahmed Bekhit (Burlington, Canada), Mohamed Abdelsalam (Hamilton, Canada), Haider Khan (Oakville, Canada), Vincent Dufresne (Verdun, Canada) and Steven Fine (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for electrical demand management and/or reduction includes the steps of determining a thermal comfort index for a premises, dispatching a thermostat setpoint signal to the premises to cause an electrical demand reduction event at the premises, and terminating the electrical demand red...