John E. Seem
44Patents
34h-index
24Co-inventors
85Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 29, 1992 → Aug 22, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.