Patents by Inventor Sudhi Sinha

Sudhi Sinha 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: 11947785
    Abstract: A building energy management includes building equipment, one or more data platform services, a timeseries database, and an energy management application. The building equipment operate to monitor and control a variable and provide raw data samples of a data point associated with the variable. The timeseries database stores a plurality of timeseries associated with the data point. The plurality of timeseries include a timeseries of the raw data samples and the one or more optimized data timeseries generated by the data platform services based on the raw data timeseries. The energy management application generates an ad hoc dashboard including a widget and associates the widget with the data point. The widget displays a graphical visualization of the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point and includes interactive user interface options for switching between the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Sudhi Sinha, Justin Ploegert
  • Publication number: 20240073055
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions that cause one or more processors to store a graph data structure in a data storage device including a plurality of nodes representing a plurality of entities and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes representing a plurality of relationships between the plurality of entities, wherein the plurality of entities include a first entity representing one of a person, place, or piece of equipment of the building, wherein a second entity of the plurality of entities represents a software component, wherein the software component performs operations for the person, place, or piece of equipment of the building indicated by one or more edges of the plurality of edges relating the first entity to the second entity and cause the software component to execute and perform the operations for the person, place, or piece of equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi Sinha
  • Patent number: 11892180
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes a plurality of actuation devices operable to affect one or more variables in the building, a plurality of sensors configured to measure the variables affected by the actuation devices, and a controller. The controller is configured to operate the actuation devices to affect one or more of the measured variables by providing an actuation signal to the actuation devices and to receive sensor response signals from the sensors. The sensor response signals indicate an effect of the actuation signal on the measured variables. For each of the sensor response signals, the controller is configured to calculate a similarity metric indicating a similarity between the sensor response signal and the actuation signal. The controller is configured to automatically establish a device pairing including one of the actuation devices and one of the sensors based on the similarity metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Sudhi Sinha, Youngchoon Park
  • Patent number: 11792039
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions that cause one or more processors to store a graph data structure in a data storage device including a plurality of nodes representing a plurality of entities and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes representing a plurality of relationships between the plurality of entities, wherein the plurality of entities include a first entity representing one of a person, place, or piece of equipment of the building, wherein a second entity of the plurality of entities represents a software component, wherein the software component performs operations for the person, place, or piece of equipment of the building indicated by one or more edges of the plurality of edges relating the first entity to the second entity and cause the software component to execute and perform the operations for the person, place, or piece of equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi Sinha
  • Patent number: 11768004
    Abstract: A method for registering an HVAC device in a distributed building management system (BMS). The method includes requesting a token. The token is configured to authorize a registration of the HVAC device. The method further includes receiving the token at a registration service, and receiving a unique ID associated with the HVAC device at the registration service. The method also includes registering the device into a document database of the registration service and generating a device shadow associated with the HVAC device. The method also includes storing the device shadow in the distributed BMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Sudhi Sinha, Youngchoon Park, Kyle Richard Gustafson, Justin J. Ploegert, Erik Paulson
  • Publication number: 20230030077
    Abstract: A building energy management includes building equipment, one or more data platform services, a timeseries database, and an energy management application. The building equipment operate to monitor and control a variable and provide raw data samples of a data point associated with the variable. The timeseries database stores a plurality of timeseries associated with the data point. The plurality of timeseries include a timeseries of the raw data samples and the one or more optimized data timeseries generated by the data platform services based on the raw data timeseries. The energy management application generates an ad hoc dashboard including a widget and associates the widget with the data point. The widget displays a graphical visualization of the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point and includes interactive user interface options for switching between the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Sudhi Sinha, Justin Ploegert
  • Patent number: 11422687
    Abstract: A building energy management includes building equipment, one or more data platform services, a timeseries database, and an energy management application. The building equipment operate to monitor and control a variable and provide raw data samples of a data point associated with the variable. The timeseries database stores a plurality of timeseries associated with the data point. The plurality of timeseries include a timeseries of the raw data samples and the one or more optimized data timeseries generated by the data platform services based on the raw data timeseries. The energy management application generates an ad hoc dashboard including a widget and associates the widget with the data point. The widget displays a graphical visualization of the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point and includes interactive user interface options for switching between the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Sudhi Sinha, Justin Ploegert
  • Patent number: 11353853
    Abstract: A building device for a building management system (BMS) includes a processing circuit configured to receive one or more health messages from one or more other building devices. The processing circuit is configured to update an existing health message stored in a memory of the building device based on the one or more health messages by updating a message list of the existing health message with message list data of the one or more health messages, updating a sick node list of the existing health message based on the updated message list, and updating a sick node matrix of the existing health message based on the updated sick node list and the received one or more health messages. The processing circuit is configured to communicate the updated health message to at least one of the one or more other building devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Sudhi Sinha, Youngchoon Park
  • Patent number: 11277893
    Abstract: A thermostat for a building includes a light emitting diode (LED) system including one or more LEDs configured to emit light to illuminate a floor area beneath the thermostat. The thermostat incorporates an occupancy sensor to sense the approach of a user based on changes in conditions in proximity to the thermostat and detect an ambient light level. The thermostat includes a processing circuit configured to receive data outputs from the occupancy sensor, determine whether the data outputs indicate the approach of a user, cause the one or more LEDs to emit the light towards the floor in response to an indication that a user is approaching the thermostat based on occupancy sensor data correlated with occupancy conditions, and record and store LED activations and deactivations for later retrieval as historic data. The one or more LEDs may be configured as an illumination module removably attachable to the thermostat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Sudhi Sinha, Joseph R. Ribbich, Michael L. Ribbich, Charles J. Gaidish, John P. Cipolla, Damon B. Smith, John R. Taylor, Jr., John M. Reiszl, William P. Alberth, Jr., Kurt Joseph Mease
  • Patent number: 11231691
    Abstract: A building management system (BMS) including a controller having an adaptive interaction manager and an agent manager. The system further includes one or more input-output (I/O) devices, the I/O devices in communication with the adaptive interaction manager. The controller further including a number of BMS field devices. The I/O devices are configured to receive an input from a user, and further configured to communicate the input to the adaptive interaction manager. The agent manager is configured to determine if one or more existing software agents are capable of performing the desired action, and to automatically transmit the existing software agents to one or more of the BMS field devices based on the agent manager determining the existing software agents are capable of performing the desired action. The software agents are configured to automatically be installed in a processing circuit of the BMS field device to perform the required action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Sudhi Sinha, Daniel M. Curtis, Donald Albinger, Youngchoon Park, Joseph Mueller, Karl Reichenberger, Matthew T. Trawicki, Patrick E. Harder
  • Patent number: 11216020
    Abstract: A thermostat includes a transparent touch screen display, wherein the matter behind the display is visible in the non-active display portions and a control bar connected to one side of the transparent touch screen display. The control bar includes a housing, processing circuitry operably connected to the transparent touch screen display and configured to monitor and control building equipment, and a temperature sensor operably connected to the processing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Sudhi Sinha, Joseph R. Ribbich, Michael L. Ribbich, Charles J. Gaidish, John Peter Cipolla
  • Publication number: 20210373753
    Abstract: A building energy management includes building equipment, one or more data platform services, a timeseries database, and an energy management application. The building equipment operate to monitor and control a variable and provide raw data samples of a data point associated with the variable. The timeseries database stores a plurality of timeseries associated with the data point. The plurality of timeseries include a timeseries of the raw data samples and the one or more optimized data timeseries generated by the data platform services based on the raw data timeseries. The energy management application generates an ad hoc dashboard including a widget and associates the widget with the data point. The widget displays a graphical visualization of the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point and includes interactive user interface options for switching between the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Sudhi Sinha, Justin Ploegert
  • Publication number: 20210306176
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions that cause one or more processors to store a graph data structure in a data storage device including a plurality of nodes representing a plurality of entities and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes representing a plurality of relationships between the plurality of entities, wherein the plurality of entities include a first entity representing one of a person, place, or piece of equipment of the building, wherein a second entity of the plurality of entities represents a software component, wherein the software component performs operations for the person, place, or piece of equipment of the building indicated by one or more edges of the plurality of edges relating the first entity to the second entity and cause the software component to execute and perform the operations for the person, place, or piece of equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi Sinha
  • Patent number: 11073976
    Abstract: A building energy management includes building equipment, one or more data platform services, a timeseries database, and an energy management application. The building equipment operate to monitor and control a variable and provide raw data samples of a data point associated with the variable. The timeseries database stores a plurality of timeseries associated with the data point. The plurality of timeseries include a timeseries of the raw data samples and the one or more optimized data timeseries generated by the data platform services based on the raw data timeseries. The energy management application generates an ad hoc dashboard including a widget and associates the widget with the data point. The widget displays a graphical visualization of the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point and includes interactive user interface options for switching between the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Sudhi Sinha, Justin Ploegert
  • Patent number: 11070390
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, the instructions causing one or more processors to generate a space graph based on building data, wherein the space graph is a graph data structure comprising nodes representing entities, edges between the nodes representing relationships between the entities, receive new building data from one or more building data sources, generate, based on the new building data, a new relationship between a first entity of the entities and a second entity of the entities, and update the space graph with the new relationship by causing the space graph to store a new edge between a first node of the nodes representing the first entity and a second node of the nodes representing the second entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi Sinha
  • Patent number: 11038709
    Abstract: A building system for operating a building and managing building information, the building system comprising one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon. The instructions causing one or more processors to receive building data from one or more building data sources and generate a space graph based on the building data, wherein the space graph is a graph data structure comprising nodes representing entities and edges between the entities representing relationships between the entities. The instructions cause the one or more processors to ingest data values of the building data into the space graph, the data values associated with the entities, and perform one or more operations with the space graph based on both the relationships of the entities and the ingested data values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi Sinha
  • Patent number: 11018889
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, the instructions causing one or more processors to generate a space graph based on building data, generate a control algorithm based on the space graph and operate one or more pieces of building equipment based on the control algorithm, and receive new building data from one or more building data sources. The instructions cause the one or more processors to generate one or more new relationships between a first entity of entities and a second entity of the entities, update the space graph with the new relationship by causing the space graph to store a new edge between a first node of nodes representing the first entity and a second node of the nodes representing the second entity, and update the control algorithm based on the new edge of the updated space graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi Sinha
  • Patent number: 11018890
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, the instructions causing one or more processors to generate a temporary relationship between a first entity and a second entity of a space graph, cause the space graph to include the temporary relationship, perform one or more control operations based on the space graph including the temporary edge, receive new building data from the one or more building data sources, determine whether to generate a permanent relationship to replace the temporary relationship based on the new building data, and update the space graph by causing the permanent relationship to replace the temporary relationship of the space graph in response to a determination to generate the permanent relationship to replace the temporary relationship by causing a permanent edge to replace the temporary edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi Sinha
  • Patent number: 11018891
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, the instructions causing one or more processors to receive building data from one or more building data sources, identify, based on the building data, an indirect relationship between a first entity and a second entity of a space graph, the indirect relationship caused by a control algorithm of the space graph, update the space graph with the indirect relationship by causing the space graph to include an indirect relationship edge between a first node of nodes representing the first entity and a second node of the nodes representing the second entity, update the control algorithm of the space graph based on the indirect relationship edge, and operate one or more pieces of building equipment based on the updated control algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi Sinha
  • Patent number: 10969131
    Abstract: A thermostat for a building includes a halo light emitting diode (LED) system including one or more LEDs configured to emit light and a halo diffuser structured around at least a portion of an outer edge of the thermostat. The halo diffuser is configured to diffuse the emitted light of the one or more LEDs around at least the portion of the outer edge of the thermostat. The thermostat includes a processing circuit configured to receive one or more data streams, determine whether the one or more data streams indicate a building emergency condition, and operate the one or more LEDs of the halo LED system to indicate the building emergency condition to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Sudhi Sinha, Joseph R Ribbich, Michael L Ribbich, Charles J. Gaidish, John P. Cipolla, Damon B. Smith, John R. Taylor, Jr., John M. Reiszl, William P. Alberth, Jr.