ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,280, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method and system for monitoring an environmental control system using a mobile device" was invented by FoongYeen Chan (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia), Liwen Yu (Acton, Mass.), Nagasree Poluri (Bangalore, India), Seth Laporta (Waltham, Mass.), Wei Hua (Acton, Mass.) and James Barrette (Ashburnham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes establishing a wireless connection between a mobile device and a programmable zone controller. The mobile device executes an application program configured to communicate with the programmable zone contro...