ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,711, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Method and assembly for comparing a room temperature with air-conditioning preferences of room users" was invented by Hermann Georg Mayer (Prien am Chiemsee, Germany) and Oliver Zechlin (Zug, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Air-conditioning preferences of room users are read in order to compare a room temperature with air-conditioning preferences of the room users. Additionally, factors influencing the room temperature are detected and fed to a simulator in order to simulate the room temperature. A respective energy requirement for adapting the room temperature ...