ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,385, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Variable alarm setpoints and priorities" was invented by Arnab Bhattacharjee (Bangalore, India), Ioannis Tziatas (Witkoppen, South Africa) and Sreedhara Mallavarapu (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for variable alarm setpoints and priorities are described herein. A method can include receiving, by a computing device, process data from equipment at an industrial site over a period of time, calculating, by the computing device, a rate of change of a process variable associated with a process at the in...