ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,047, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The AUROS Group Inc. (Carnegie, Pa.).

"Building performance assessment system and method" was invented by Beth Ann Eckenrode (Presto, Pa.) and Craig Enrico Stevenson (Oakdale, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual data acquisition component holds a physics-based, building energy model having a plurality of predicted building performance metrics produced through a simulation of expected building performance. A physical data acquisition component obtains a plurality of trended building performance metrics during the operation of a building. An integrated interface having an analytics platf...