Patents by Inventor Gregory Polce

Gregory Polce 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).

  • Facilitating scheduling of comfort controllers
    Patent number: 10557637
    Abstract: Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for facilitating scheduling of comfort controllers such as thermostats. In an exemplary embodiment, a comfort controller is operable to control one or more configurations of a climate control system for providing climate control in a structure. The comfort controller is operable in accordance with a user-selected one of a plurality of stored weekly schedules for operation of the one or more configurations, where each of the plurality of stored weekly schedules provides a plurality of daily time slots and temperature set points, and is based on user-specifications, and where the user-selected weekly schedule is wirelessly received by and completely replaces a current operating weekly schedule on the comfort controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Thomas B. Lorenz, Gregory Polce
  • Facilitating Scheduling of Comfort Controllers
    Publication number: 20180320908
    Abstract: Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for facilitating scheduling of comfort controllers such as thermostats. In an exemplary embodiment, a comfort controller is operable to control one or more configurations of a climate control system for providing climate control in a structure. The comfort controller is operable in accordance with a user-selected one of a plurality of stored weekly schedules for operation of the one or more configurations, where each of the plurality of stored weekly schedules provides a plurality of daily time slots and temperature set points, and is based on user-specifications, and where the user-selected weekly schedule is wirelessly received by and completely replaces a current operating weekly schedule on the comfort controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas B. Lorenz, Gregory Polce
  • Facilitating scheduling of comfort controllers
    Patent number: 10024565
    Abstract: Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for facilitating scheduling of comfort controllers such as thermostats. In an exemplary embodiment, a comfort controller is operable to control a configuration of a climate control system for providing climate control in a structure. The comfort controller is operable in accordance with a user-selected one of a plurality of stored schedules for operation of the configuration, where the user-selected schedule is wirelessly received by and replaceable on the comfort controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Thomas B. Lorenz, Gregory Polce
  • Facilitating Scheduling of Comfort Controllers
    Publication number: 20150204569
    Abstract: Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for facilitating scheduling of comfort controllers such as thermostats. In an exemplary embodiment, a comfort controller is operable to control a configuration of a climate control system for providing climate control in a structure. The comfort controller is operable in accordance with a user-selected one of a plurality of stored schedules for operation of the configuration, where the user-selected schedule is wirelessly received by and replaceable on the comfort controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas B. Lorenz, Gregory Polce