US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for controlling variable refrigerant flow systems using artificial intelligence" (Chinese, Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,957, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for controlling variable refrigerant flow systems using artificial intelligence" was invented by Bo Fan (Wuxi, China), Zhigang Wu (Suzhou, China), Hayato Mori (Tokyo), Zhongyue Sun (Milwaukee), Liming Yang (Mequon, Wis.) and Robert D. Turney (Watertown, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerant charge controller for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment includes a processing circuit configured to analyze usage data for the HVAC equipment using a machine learning model to estimate ...