ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,065, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Resideo USA LLC (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Method for reducing inrush current" was invented by Silver Yang (Shanghai), Sandy Wu (Shanghai) and Juana Peng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control panel for controlling a security system. The control panel may comprise: one or more components; a memory for storing booting instructions, and a processor for executing the stored booting instructions. When carrying out a booting process defined by the booting instructions, the processor may be configured to generate at least one random time-delay value; assign the at least one random time-dela...