ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,082, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for servicing orphaned sensors in a building control system" was invented by Venkatesh Paramasivam (Bangalore, India), Ruban S (Tamilnadu, India), Eldhose K. George (Kerala, India) and Balamurugan Ganesan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of a plurality of non-orphaned RF sensors may be assigned to a corresponding one of a plurality of communication slots. Emergency messages and non-emergency messages are received from each of the non-orphaned RF sensors. One or more emergency messages and non-emergency mes...