ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,450, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Building control device with peer-to-peer communication for enhanced functionality" was invented by Jeslin Paul Joseph (Bengaluru, India), Sivasanthanam Dhayalan (Bangalore, India), Karthikeyan Kannaiyan (Tamil Nadu, India), Abhisekh Jain (Madurai, India), Kingslin Joseph (Karnataka, India), Sunil Madhusuthanan (Nagercoil, India), Dinesh Babu Rajamanickam (Thanjavur, India) and Benitta Hubert (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The health status of each of a plurality of services running on a building control device of a building co...