US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on May 19 for "Building equipment with predictive control" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,357, issued on May 19, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building equipment with predictive control" was invented by Robert D. Turney (Watertown, Wis.), Nishith R. Patel (Madison, Wis.) and Karl F. Reichenberger (Mequon, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating ventilating or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a unit configured for use in a heating or a cooling operation for an environment. The unit includes an interface configured to receive electric energy from an alternative energy source and a controller configured to perform an optimization of an objective function for the...