Patents by Inventor Nicolaus P. MEYER

Nicolaus P. MEYER 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).

  • Predictive building control system with neural network based comfort prediction
    Patent number: 11371739
    Abstract: A building control system includes one or more controllers configured to obtain comfort feedback provided by one or more occupants of a building in response to exposing the one or more occupants to a first set of environmental conditions of the building. The one or more controllers are also configured to generate, based on the comfort feedback, one or more thresholds defining a range of values for an environmental condition of the building within which the one or more occupants are predicted to be comfortable, execute a predictive control process subject to one or more constraints based on the one or more thresholds to generate setpoints for building equipment, and operate the building equipment to drive the environmental condition of the building toward the setpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. Elbsat, Fang Du, Nicolaus P. Meyer, Anas W. I. Alanqar, Robert D. Turney
  • PREDICTIVE BUILDING CONTROL SYSTEM WITH NEURAL NETWORK BASED COMFORT PREDICTION
    Publication number: 20200355391
    Abstract: A building control system includes one or more controllers configured to obtain comfort feedback provided by one or more occupants of a building in response to exposing the one or more occupants to a first set of environmental conditions of the building. The one or more controllers are also configured to generate, based on the comfort feedback, one or more thresholds defining a range of values for an environmental condition of the building within which the one or more occupants are predicted to be comfortable, execute a predictive control process subject to one or more constraints based on the one or more thresholds to generate setpoints for building equipment, and operate the building equipment to drive the environmental condition of the building toward the setpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Michael J. WENZEL, Mohammad N. ELBSAT, Fang DU, Nicolaus P. MEYER, Anas W. I. ALANQAR, Robert D. TURNEY