US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 14 for "Control apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for occupant-based energy prediction" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,497, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for occupant-based energy prediction" was invented by Hiroshi Oki (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a controller configured to: acquire first information indicating the number of people in a target building during a predetermined time period, second information indicating electrical energy consumed in the target building during the predetermined time period, and/or third information indicating the number of people heading to the target bui...