ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,647, issued on March 24, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for jointly controlling electric vehicle-heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system of building" was invented by Prasant Kumar Misra (Bangalore, India), Ajay Narayanan (Bangalore, India), Srinarayana Nagarathinam (Chennai, India) and Arunchandar Vasan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current approaches for minimizing energy requirement of buildings are not designed to handle multi-input multi-output systems, such as electric vehicle-heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (EV-HVAC) system. Further, scal...