ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,290, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Alert management system" was invented by Saumya Jain (Jabalpur, India) and Hardik Agarwal (Siliguri, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for managing alerts on detecting occurrence of a plurality of events within a premises, are described. According to one example, a control unit and a plurality of alert generating units may be provided. The control unit may receive sensor data generated by a sensing unit. The sensor data may then be processed to ascertain occurrence of an event from among the plurality of events. Once the event is asce...