Patents by Inventor Michael J. Risbeck

Michael J. Risbeck 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).

  • Patent number: 11885510
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Risbeck
  • Publication number: 20230315079
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a fault prediction model for building equipment, predicting, with the fault prediction model, both (i) whether a fault will occur during a first prediction bin and (ii) whether a fault will occur during a second prediction bin, performing a first mitigating action for the building equipment if the fault is predicted to occur during the first prediction bin, and performing a second mitigating action for the building equipment if the fault is predicted to occur during the second prediction bin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Chenlu Zhang, Zhanhong Jiang, Young M. Lee, Santle Camilus Kulandai Samy, Jaume Amores, Saman Cyrus
  • Publication number: 20230315031
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of devices of building equipment, an additional device of building equipment, and a computing system. The computing system is configured to process data from the plurality of devices to extract common features of the plurality of devices, train a global model based on the common features, obtain additional data from the additional device, adapt the global model for the additional device based on the additional data to obtain an adapted model for the additional device, predict a status of the additional device using the adapted model, and affect an operation of the additional device based on the status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Santle Camilus Kulandai Samy, Michael J. Risbeck, Young M. Lee, Chenlu Zhang, Zhanhong Jiang
  • Publication number: 20230315032
    Abstract: A method includes automatically selecting a prediction horizon used by the predictive model by performing evaluations of model performance at successively narrower ranges of possible prediction horizons until the prediction horizon is determined based on results of the evaluations. The method may also include using the predictive model with the prediction horizon to perform an automated control action, which may include at least one of controlling or monitoring the building equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Santle Camilus Kulandai Samy, Young M. Lee, Michael J. Risbeck
  • Publication number: 20230316066
    Abstract: A method includes training a conditional generator by operating a generative adversarial network that includes the conditional generator, generating, by the conditional generator, synthetic timeseries data corresponding to a plurality of fault types, wherein labels for the plurality of fault types are used as inputs to the conditional generator, training a fault prediction model using the synthetic timeseries data, and predicting a fault for building equipment by applying the fault prediction model to real timeseries data relating to the building equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Zhanhong Jiang, Michael J. Risbeck, Young M. Lee, Santle Camilus Kulandai Samy, Chenlu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230280064
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Young M. Lee, Jonathan D. Douglas, Martin Z. Bazant
  • Publication number: 20230250987
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: FANG DU, MICHAEL J. WENZEL, ANAS W.I. ALANQAR, JONATHAN D. DOUGLAS, SEAN A. FINN-SAMUELS, MICHAEL J. RISBECK, MOHAMMAD N. ELBSAT, KIRK H. DREES
  • Publication number: 20230250988
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Young M. Lee, Jonathan D. Douglas, Martin Z. Bazant
  • Publication number: 20230236560
    Abstract: A method includes providing a net consumption trajectory comprising net consumption targets for one or more subperiods of a time period. Each net consumption target indicates a target difference from a beginning of a time period to an end of the subperiod between total consumption and total production or offset. The method also includes generating, for a subperiod of the plurality of subperiods, a set of curtailment actions predicted to achieve the net consumption target for the subperiod and implementing the set of curtailment actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: YOUNG M. LEE, MICHAEL J. RISBECK, MOHAMMAD N. ELBSAT, MICHAEL J. WENZEL, RAJIV RAMANASANKARAN
  • Publication number: 20230152762
    Abstract: A building system can operate to receive a requirement to implement an artificial intelligence (AI) service. The requirement can include an indication of a type of an entity, wherein the AI service is configured to generate an analytic for the entity of the type of the entity or a control setting for the entity of the type of the entity. The requirement can include a data element that the AI service is configured to operate on to generate the analytic or the control setting. The building system can operate to determine that the building system meets the requirement to implement the AI service responsive to a determination that a digital twin of the building system includes the entity of the entity type and the data element and implement the AI service responsive to a determination that the building system meets the requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Rajiv Ramanasankaran, Michael J. Risbeck, Chenlu Zhang, Ambuj Shatdal
  • Patent number: 11480360
    Abstract: A controller for HVAC equipment stores a cascaded model that includes a disturbance model configured to predict a heat disturbance affecting the building zone as a function of one or more exogenous parameters and a physics model configured to predict a temperature of the building zone as a function of the heat disturbance and an amount of heating or cooling provided to the building zone by HVAC equipment. The processing circuit is configured to execute a combined training procedure to determine parameters of the disturbance model and parameters of the physics model, generate control signals for the HVAC equipment using the disturbance model to predict the heat disturbance and applying the heat disturbance as an input to the physics model, and operate the HVAC equipment to provide the heating or cooling to the building zone in accordance with the control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. Elbsat
  • Publication number: 20220284519
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling building equipment include simulating operation of the building equipment at a plurality of initial points to generate corresponding values of a first control objective and a second control objective that competes with the first control objective, automatically generating a new point at which to run a new simulation based on the plurality of initial points and the corresponding values of the control objectives, running the new simulation at the new point to generate corresponding values of the control objectives, classifying a subset of the plurality of initial points and the new point as Pareto-optimal points based on the corresponding values of the control objectives, and operating the building equipment at a Pareto-optimal point selected from the subset of the plurality of initial points and the new point classified as Pareto-optimal points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Payal Pancholi, Abhishek Gupta, James P. Kummer, Michael J. Wenzel, Michael J. Risbeck
  • Publication number: 20220082280
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Jonathan D. DOUGLAS, Kirk H. DREES, Michael J. RISBECK
  • Patent number: 11269306
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for one or more building zones includes airside HVAC equipment operable to provide clean air to the one or more building zones and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain a dynamic temperature model and a dynamic infectious quanta model for the one or more building zones, determine an infection probability, and generate control decisions for the airside HVAC equipment using the dynamic temperature model, the dynamic infectious quanta model, and the infection probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Kirk H. Drees, Jonathan D. Douglas
  • Publication number: 20220065479
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Risbeck
  • Publication number: 20220011731
    Abstract: A controller for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment that is operable to affect an environmental condition of a building is configured to obtain predictive models that predict values of a carbon emissions control objective and another control objective as a function of control decision variables for the HVAC equipment. The controller executes an optimization process using the predictive models to produce sets of optimization results corresponding to different values of the control decision variables, the carbon emissions control objective, and the other control objective. The controller selects from the sets of optimization results based on the values of the carbon emissions control objective and the other 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: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Kirk H. Drees, Jonathan D. Douglas
  • Publication number: 20210373519
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for one or more building zones includes airside HVAC equipment that provide air to the one or more building zones and a controller. The controller obtains predictive models to predict values of a first control objective and a second control objective for the one or more building zones as a function of control decision variables for the airside HVAC equipment. The controller performs a Pareto optimization for a time period using the one or more predictive models to determine multiple sets of Pareto optimal values of the control decision variables and corresponding sets of Pareto optimal values of the first control objective and the second control objective for the time period. The controller operates the airside HVAC equipment to provide the air to the one or more building zones in accordance with a selected set of the Pareto optimal values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Kirk H. Drees, Jonathan D. Douglas
  • Publication number: 20210364181
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system (HVAC) design and operational tool includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including obtaining a dynamic temperature model and a dynamic infectious quanta model for one or more building zones, determining an infection probability, and performing a plurality of simulations for a plurality of different equipment configurations using the dynamic temperature model, the dynamic infectious quanta model, and the infection probability to generate results. The operations include generating, using the results of the plurality of simulations, at least one of design including one or more recommended design parameters data or operational data including one or more recommended operational parameters for the HVAC system and initiating an automated action using at least one of the design data or the operational data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Kirk H. Drees, Jonathan D. Douglas
  • Patent number: 11131473
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system (HVAC) design and operational tool includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including obtaining a dynamic temperature model and a dynamic infectious quanta model for one or more building zones, determining an infection probability, and performing a plurality of simulations for a plurality of different equipment configurations using the dynamic temperature model, the dynamic infectious quanta model, and the infection probability to generate results. The operations include generating, using the results of the plurality of simulations, at least one of design including one or more recommended design parameters data or operational data including one or more recommended operational parameters for the HVAC system and initiating an automated action using at least one of the design data or the operational data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Kirk H. Drees, Jonathan D. Douglas
  • Patent number: 11098920
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system (HVAC) design and operational tool includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including obtaining a dynamic temperature model and a dynamic infectious quanta model for one or more building zones, determining an infection probability, and performing a plurality of simulations for a plurality of different equipment configurations using the dynamic temperature model, the dynamic infectious quanta model, and the infection probability to generate results. The operations include generating, using the results of the plurality of simulations, at least one of design including one or more recommended design parameters data or operational data including one or more recommended operational parameters for the HVAC system and initiating an automated action using at least one of the design data or the operational data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Kirk H. Drees, Jonathan D. Douglas