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James P. Kummer — 25 Patents

JTJohnson Controls Technology: 21 patents #30 of 2,110Top 2%
JLJohnson Controls Tyco Ip Holdings Llp: 3 patents #168 of 843Top 20%
TGTyco Fire & Security Gmbh: 1 patents #408 of 829Top 50%
Wales, WI: #3 of 47 inventorsTop 7%
Wisconsin: #1,371 of 40,088 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
James P. Kummer has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Johnson Controls Technology. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in August 2025. James P. Kummer ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list James P. Kummer in Wales, WI, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12393992 Systems and methods for assessing and controlling sustainability of an energy plant Payal Pancholi, Abhishek Gupta, Michael J. Wenzel, Michael J. Risbeck 2025-08-19
12332677 Smart building manager Clay G. Nesler, Kirk H. Drees, Derek Supple, Marc D. Andraca, John I. Ruiz +1 more 2025-06-17
11927977 Smart building manager Clay G. Nesler, Kirk H. Drees, Derek Supple, Marc D. Andraca, John I. Ruiz +1 more 2024-03-12
11699903 Building energy optimization system with economic load demand response (ELDR) optimization and ELDR user interfaces Mohammad N. Elbsat, Michael J. Wenzel, Nicole A. Madison, Tricia J. Valentine, Collin W. Eggert +3 more 2023-07-11 $16,029,000
11416017 Smart building manager Clay G. Nesler, Kirk H. Drees, Derek Supple, Marc D. Andraca, John I. Ruiz +1 more 2022-08-16
11276125 Systems and methods for assessing economic feasibility of an energy plant Payal Pancholi, Abhishek Gupta 2022-03-15 $10,533,000
11181875 Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling a central plant Matthew J. Asmus, Michael J. Wenzel, Carol T. Tumey, Lisa E. Strand, Dennis J. Flood +3 more 2021-11-23 $115,337,000
11022947 Building energy optimization system with economic load demand response (ELDR) optimization and ELDR user interfaces Mohammad N. Elbsat, Michael J. Wenzel, Nicole A. Madison, Tricia J. Valentine, Collin W. Eggert +3 more 2021-06-01
10928784 Central plant optimization system with streamlined data linkage of design and operational data Peter A. Craig, Michael F. Jaeger, Carol T. Tumey 2021-02-23
10901446 Smart building manager Clay G. Nesler, Kirk H. Drees, Derek Supple, Marc D. Andraca, John I. Ruiz +1 more 2021-01-26
10732584 Building energy optimization system with automated and dynamic economic load demand response (ELDR) optimization Mohammad N. Elbsat, Michael J. Wenzel, Matthew J. Asmus, Peter A. Craig, Robert D. Turney 2020-08-04
10325331 Systems and methods for measuring and verifying energy usage in a building Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Wenzel 2019-06-18
9639413 Automated fault detection and diagnostics in a building management system Kirk H. Drees 2017-05-02
D781306 Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface Dennis J. Flood, Nicole A. Madison, Joel Meine 2017-03-14
9575475 Systems and methods for generating an energy usage model for a building Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Wenzel 2017-02-21
9568910 Systems and methods for using rule-based fault detection in a building management system Kirk H. Drees, Andrew J. Boettcher 2017-02-14
9429927 Smart building manager Clay G. Nesler, Kirk H. Drees, Derek Supple, Marc D. Andraca, John I. Ruiz +1 more 2016-08-30 $28,803,000
9390388 Systems and methods for measuring and verifying energy usage in a building Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Wenzel 2016-07-12 $55,157,000
9354968 Systems and methods for data quality control and cleansing Michael J. Wenzel, Andrew J. Boettcher, Kirk H. Drees 2016-05-31 $24,456,000
9286582 Systems and methods for detecting changes in energy usage in a building Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Wenzel 2016-03-15 $25,760,000
9069338 Systems and methods for statistical control and fault detection in a building management system Kirk H. Drees 2015-06-30 $50,556,000
8788097 Systems and methods for using rule-based fault detection in a building management system Kirk H. Drees, Andrew J. Boettcher 2014-07-22 $38,010,000
8731724 Automated fault detection and diagnostics in a building management system Kirk H. Drees 2014-05-20 $27,720,000
8600556 Smart building manager Clay G. Nesler, Kirk H. Drees, Derek Supple, Marc D. Andraca, John I. Ruiz +1 more 2013-12-03 $34,898,000
8532839 Systems and methods for statistical control and fault detection in a building management system Kirk H. Drees 2013-09-10 $19,069,000