Patents by Inventor Jonathan D. Douglas
Jonathan D. Douglas 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).
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Patent number: 12667632Abstract: A disinfection device system of a building comprising: a controller comprising at least one processor and at least one memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, are configured to cause the at least one processor to: monitor one or more conditions of a space in the building; and selectively activate and deactivate at least one Far UV-C disinfection device installed in the space using the conditions of the space and one or more of an energy budget, a target total operating cost, or a net emissions target, wherein the Far UV-C disinfection device comprises at least one Far UV-C light source structured to output disinfecting light at a wavelength between 200 nm and 230 nm.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2023Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Brennan H. Fentzlaff, Bernard P. Clement, Christopher C. Duncan, Charles Gans, Matthew J. Deloge, Tyler A. Smith
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Publication number: 20260177265Abstract: An infection control tool for a building HVAC system includes processing circuitry configured to receive one or more inputs defining a HVAC system configuration for each of a baseline scenario and one or more other scenarios. The processing circuitry is also configured to estimate infection risk and at least one of energy consumption or operating cost for each of the one or more other scenarios relative to the baseline scenario. The processing circuitry is also configured to operate a display to provide the infection risk and at least one of the energy consumption or operating cost to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2026Publication date: June 25, 2026Inventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Risbeck
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Publication number: 20260160437Abstract: A method for providing filtered air to a zone of a building includes operating an air handler to pass unfiltered air through a filter and output filtered air to the zone of the building. The method includes determining an amount of filtered air provided to the zone of the building by the air handler. The method includes determining if additional air filtration is required to satisfy at least one of a desired amount of clean airflow or a desired reduction of a risk of infection. The method includes activating an in-zone filtration device and operating the in-zone filtration device to draw air from the zone into an inner volume, filter the air, and recirculate the filtered air to the zone of the building in response to determining additional air filtration is required.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2026Publication date: June 11, 2026Inventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Risbeck
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Patent number: 12590721Abstract: Systems and methods for particulate sensing of a building. Some embodiments relate to an air handling unit of an HVAC system of a building. The air handling unit includes ducting, one or more air dampers coupled to the ducting, and an integrated sampling system including piping coupled to at least one of the ducting or the one or more air dampers and configured to collect a plurality of air stream samples, a plurality of integrated sensors configured to measure the air stream sample, wherein a first integrated sensor is configured to measure a first species of the air stream sample, and wherein a second integrated sensor is configured to measure a second species of the air stream sample, and a processing circuit configured to estimate one or more air quality indicators of the air handling unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Tyler A. Smith, Kirk H. Drees
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Patent number: 12584648Abstract: Systems and methods for executing an IAQ analysis of a building. One system includes a controller including memory and one or more processors configured to obtain IAQ data from one or more sensors within the building, wherein the IAQ data is associated with at least one of a plurality of environment species, obtain BAS data, identify one or more unknown parameters from the IAQ data and BAS data of two or more of the plurality of environment species, estimate the one or more unknown parameters based on inputting the IAQ data and the BAS data into an optimization model, and wherein the optimization model analyzes predicted concentrations of the plurality of environment species subject to the two or more of the plurality of environment species evolving according to a single-species concentration model, and provide the estimated one or more unknown parameters to one or more predictive models.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Young M. Lee, Jonathan D. Douglas, Martin Z. Bazant
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Patent number: 12578109Abstract: A method for providing filtered air to a zone of a building includes operating an air handler to pass unfiltered air through a filter and output filtered air to the zone of the building. The method includes determining an amount of filtered air provided to the zone of the building by the air handler. The method includes determining if additional air filtration is required to satisfy at least one of a desired amount of clean airflow or a desired reduction of a risk of infection. The method includes activating an in-zone filtration device and operating the in-zone filtration device to draw air from the zone into an inner volume, filter the air, and recirculate the filtered air to the zone of the building in response to determining additional air filtration is required.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2024Date of Patent: March 17, 2026Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Risbeck
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Patent number: 12578110Abstract: Systems and methods for particulate sensing of a building. Some embodiments relate to an air handling unit of an HVAC system of a building. The air handling unit includes a zone sensor configured to sample a first zone and measure a first particle disturbance of the first zone, an integrated sampling system includes one or more integrated sensors configured to measure a second particle disturbance of an outdoor air stream and a third particle disturbance of an indoor air stream. The air handling unit further includes an air handling unit controller configured to control operation of the air handling unit, responsive to comparing the second particle disturbance with at least one of the first particle disturbance or and the third particle disturbance.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 17, 2026Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Tyler A. Smith, Kirk H. Drees
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Patent number: 12578117Abstract: An air handling unit of an HVAC system of a building including ducting through which airflow is controllably pushed by a supply fan of the HVAC system, at least one of a heating or cooling device within the ducting, an air handling unit controller configured to control operation of the at least one of the heating or cooling device within the ducting to generate condensation from air flowing through the air handling unit, and a collector tray placed within and/or integrated with the ducting below the at least one of the heating or cooling device and structured to collect the condensation, via gravity, for use in analysis of the condensation, wherein the at least one of the heating or cooling device, the air handling unit controller, and the collector tray are configured to collect the condensation including infectious disease particles from the air flowing through the air handling unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 17, 2026Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Kirk H. Drees
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Patent number: 12571554Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling building equipment based on an indoor air quality (IAQ) ventilation analysis of a building. One system includes a controller including memory and one or more processors configured to continuously collect IAQ data from one or more sensors within the building, estimate a plurality of outdoor airflow rates for an area of the building during a plurality of transient periods using the IAQ data as input, generate a time series outdoor airflow rate includes the plurality of estimated outdoor airflow rates, and modify a control strategy for the area of the building based on the time series outdoor airflow rate and a ventilation schedule for the area of the building.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: March 10, 2026Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Fang Du, Michael J. Wenzel, Anas W.I. Alanqar, Jonathan D. Douglas, Sean Aaron Finn-Samuels, Michael J. Risbeck, Mohammad Elbsat, Kirk H. Drees
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Patent number: 12571553Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for building air quality assessment. One system includes a one or more processors configured to receive air quality measurements of at least a plurality of air quality sensors of a plurality of spaces of the building. The one or more processors further configured to generate a plurality of air quality metrics of the plurality of spaces based on the air quality measurements and at least one IAQ performance metric, and wherein the at least one IAQ performance metric contextualizes the air quality measurements. The one or more processors further configured to generate a graphical interface including a plurality of interface objects corresponding to the plurality of air quality metrics of the plurality of spaces of the building and cause a display device of a user device to display the graphical interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 10, 2026Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Bernard P. Clement
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Patent number: 12546499Abstract: Systems and methods for executing an IAQ analysis of a building. One system includes a controller including memory and one or more processors configured to obtain IAQ data from one or more sensors within the building, wherein the IAQ data is associated with at least one of a plurality of environment species, obtain BAS data, identify one or more unknown parameters from the IAQ data and BAS data of two or more of the plurality of environment species, estimate the one or more unknown parameters based on inputting the IAQ data and the BAS data into an optimization model, and wherein the optimization model analyzes predicted concentrations of the plurality of environment species subject to the two or more of the plurality of environment species evolving according to a single-species concentration model, and provide the estimated one or more unknown parameters to one or more predictive models.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Young M. Lee, Jonathan D. Douglas, Martin Z. Bazant
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Patent number: 12529490Abstract: An infection control tool for a building HVAC system includes processing circuitry configured to receive one or more inputs defining a HVAC system configuration for each of a baseline scenario and one or more other scenarios. The processing circuitry is also configured to estimate infection risk and at least one of energy consumption or operating cost for each of the one or more other scenarios relative to the baseline scenario. The processing circuitry is also configured to operate a display to provide the infection risk and at least one of the energy consumption or operating cost to a user.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 20, 2026Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Risbeck
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Patent number: 12437627Abstract: A pathogen detection system for a building includes multiple pathogen detectors positioned in the building at different locations. The pathogen detectors are configured to output detection data including a detected presence of a pathogen. The pathogen detection system includes processing circuitry configured to obtain the detection data from the pathogen detectors. The processing circuitry is also configured to determine a responsive action based on the detected presence of the pathogen, and the locations. The responsive action includes a magnitude of effect and a magnitude of locality. The processing circuitry is configured to perform the responsive action or initiate the responsive action.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Kirk H. Drees, Jonathan D. Douglas, Bernard P. Clement
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Patent number: 12412003Abstract: A building system of a building operates to store a digital twin of the building in the one or more storage devices, wherein the digital twin further includes an artificial intelligence configured to generate a plurality of inference values of a data point for a plurality of future times, the data point related to the building by the interrelationship of the digital twin. The building system operates to generate a recommendation based on the plurality of inference values for the data point for the plurality of future times, the recommendation recommending making one or more updates to the building, and cause a graphic representation of the building to display an indication of the recommendation.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: September 9, 2025Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Rajiv Ramanasankaran, Chenlu Zhang, Ambuj Shatdal, Young Lee, Jonathan D. Douglas
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Patent number: 12398908Abstract: A building system operates to receive air quality measurements of a plurality of spaces of the building from a mobile air quality sensor, the mobile air quality sensor configured to collect the air quality measurements of the plurality of spaces while the mobile air quality sensor moves throughout the plurality of spaces of the building and provide the collected air quality measurements to the one or more processors. The air quality measurements include data identifying locations and times at which the air quality measurements were collected The building system operates to cause the one or more processors to store information, or a link to the information, in a database based on the collected air quality measurements, the database including a contextual representation of the plurality of spaces of the building and perform at least one operation using the information based on the air quality measurements.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 26, 2025Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Kirk H. Drees
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Patent number: 12372934Abstract: A controller for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment operable to affect an environmental condition of a building is configured to obtain predictive models that predict values of an energy control objective and an air quality control objective as a function of control decision variables for the HVAC equipment. The controller executes a multi-objective optimization process using the predictive models to produce multiple sets of optimization results corresponding to different values of the control decision variables, the energy control objective, and the air quality control objective. The controller selects one or more of the sets of optimization results based on the values of the energy control objective and the air quality control objective. The controller operates the HVAC equipment to affect the environmental condition of the building in accordance with the values of the control decision variables corresponding to a selected set of the optimization results.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2024Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Kirk H. Drees, Jonathan D. Douglas
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Publication number: 20250230944Abstract: A controller for HVAC equipment operable to affect an environmental condition of a building includes memory storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to obtain one or more predictive models to predict values of an air quality control objective and another control objective as a function of control decision variables for the equipment, execute an optimization process using the one or more predictive models to produce multiple sets of optimization results corresponding to different values of the control decision variables, the air quality control objective, and the other control objective, select one or more of the sets of optimization results based on the values of the air quality control objective and the other control objective, and operate the equipment to affect the environmental condition of the building in accordance with the values of the control decision variables corresponding to a selected set of the optimization results.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2025Publication date: July 17, 2025Inventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Brennan H. Fentzlaff, Bernard P. Clement, Charles Gans, Brian T. Estill
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Publication number: 20250181047Abstract: A method for controlling building equipment includes generating synthetic building data including synthetic operating parameters for building equipment that operate to affect one or more conditions of a building space using a generative artificial intelligence model, determining whether the synthetic building data comply with one or more regulations or certification standards by comparing the synthetic operating parameters or a value derived from the synthetic operating parameters against a threshold set by the one or more regulations or certifications standards, and operating the building equipment to affect the one or more conditions of the building space using the synthetic operating parameters in response to determining that the synthetic building data comply with the one or more regulations or certification standards.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2025Publication date: June 5, 2025Inventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Shawn D. Schubert, Jonathan D. Douglas, Charles Gans, Bernard P. Clement, Young M. Lee, Edward Gerard McNamara, Brennan H. Fentzlaff
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Publication number: 20250129960Abstract: A method for operating a temperature control system having a cooling system and ventilation system to vent outside air within a structure is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Kirk H. Drees, Jonathan D. Douglas
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Publication number: 20250108323Abstract: An HVAC controller includes one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising determining a filtration efficiency of an air filter located within an air handling unit and positioned to filter a pollutant from an airstream provided to a building zone by the air handling unit, determining an internal generation rate of the pollutant within the building zone, and initiating an automated action based on the filtration efficiency of the air filter within the air handling unit and the internal generation rate of the pollutant within the building zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: MICHAEL J. WENZEL, FANG DU, ANAS W. I. ALANQAR, JONATHAN D. DOUGLAS