Inventor · Shorewood, WI, US

John E. Seem

44Patents
34h-index
24Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 29, 1992 → Aug 22, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7031880B1 Method and apparatus for assessing performance of an environmental control system Physics 399 Expired
US6816811B2 Method of intelligent data analysis to detect abnormal use of utilities in buildings Physics 276 Expired
US6389331B1 Technique for monitoring performance of a facility management system Physics 257 Expired
US6223544A Integrated control and fault detection of HVAC equipment Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 229 Expired
US6006142A Environmental control system and method Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 207 Expired
US6408228B1 Hybrid finite state machine environmental system controller Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 169 Expired
US7827813B2 Adaptive real-time optimization control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 166 Active
US6415617B1 Model based economizer control of an air handling unit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 156 Expired
US5555195A Controller for use in an environment control network capable of storing diagnostic information Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 147 Expired
US5414640A Method and apparatus for adaptive demand limiting electric consumption through load shedding Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 144 Expired
US5682329A On-line monitoring of controllers in an environment control network Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 130 Expired
US5791408A Air handling unit including control system that prevents outside air from entering the unit through an exhaust air damper Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 118 Expired
US5568377A Fast automatic tuning of a feedback controller Physics 112 Expired
US6219590A State machine controller for operating variable air volume terminal units of an environmental control system Physics 104 Expired
US5867384A Feedback controller Physics 104 Expired
US5506768A Pattern recognition adaptive controller and method used in HVAC control Physics 99 Expired
US6369716B1 System and method for controlling air quality in a room Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 98 Expired
US5355305A Pattern recognition adaptive controller Physics 93 Expired
US8200345B2 Extremum seeking control with actuator saturation control Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 93 Active
US7496472B2 Method and system for assessing performance of control systems Physics 92 Active
US6296193A Controller for operating a dual duct variable air volume terminal unit of an environmental control system Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 91 Expired
US8027742B2 Fault detection systems and methods for self-optimizing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning controls Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 91 Active
US6862540B1 System and method for filling gaps of missing data using source specified data Electricity 86 Expired
US6477439B1 Method of programming and executing object-oriented state machine logic in a controller Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 86 Expired
US8200344B2 Extremum seeking control with reset control Physics 77 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.