ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,715, issued on July 14, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"HVAC control system with model driven deep learning" was invented by Robert D. Turney (Watertown, Wis.) and Henry O. Marcy V (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes operating equipment to affect a variable state or condition of a space and training weights of a neural network by outputting control dispatches from the neural network based on simulated inputs, simulating costs associated with operating the equipment in accordance with control dispatches, and adjusting the weights to reduce the costs. The method ...