Patents by Inventor Joseph C. Surber

Joseph C. Surber has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20170123440
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for crowd comfortable settings are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive a number of weighted occupant preferences of a building space, receive a number of internal variables of the building space and a number of external variables of the building space, determine whether each weighted occupant preference is feasible, and modify a setting for the number of internal variables of the building space based on whether the number of feasible occupant preferences is greater than a threshold number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Purnaprajna R. Mangsuli, Mahesh Kumar Gellaboina, Thirumaran Ekambaram, Joseph C. Surber