ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,825, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Building as an instrumentation for data-driven building operation" was invented by Ali Malkawi (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a system for environmental control in a building. The system includes a plurality of sensors including operational sensors and data gathering sensors, and a plurality of actuators. The system also includes a rule-based server and a data-driven server coupled to the plurality of sensors and the plurality of actuators. The rule-based server receives operation signals from the ...