Patents by Inventor Gregory S. Pavlak

Gregory S. Pavlak 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).

  • Systems and methods using decision analysis for controlling energy consumption and facilitating building participation in ancillary energy markets
    Patent number: 11101651
    Abstract: Building energy consumption is controlled by operating energy consumptive devices according to a control plan determined by: using a software building model to simulate building behavior over a simulation period in accordance with predicted circumstances and in accordance with multiple control plans; for at least one of the control plans, re-simulating building behavior a plurality of times each with a different perturbation imposed, with each perturbation corresponding to a different degree of participation in a grid market, to thereby determine an amount of participation in the grid market available to the building; resimulating building behavior a plurality of times imposing said determined participation amount as a constraint; and selecting an optimal control plan based on the last round of resimulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: QCoefficient, Inc, The Regents of the University of Colorado
    Inventors: Gregory S. Pavlak, Gregor P. Henze, Vincent J. Cushing
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING DECISION ANALYSIS FOR CONTROLLING ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND FACILITATING BUILDING PARTICIPATION IN ANCILLARY ENERGY MARKETS
    Publication number: 20180219374
    Abstract: Building energy consumption is controlled by operating energy consumptive devices according to a control plan determined by: using a software building model to simulate building behavior over a simulation period in accordance with predicted circumstances and in accordance with multiple control plans; for at least one of the control plans, re-simulating building behavior a plurality of times each with a different perturbation imposed, with each perturbation corresponding to a different degree of participation in a grid market, to thereby determine an amount of participation in the grid market available to the building; resimulating building behavior a plurality of times imposing said determined participation amount as a constraint; and selecting an optimal control plan based on the last round of resimulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Gregory S. Pavlak, Gregor P. HENZE, Vincent J. CUSHING