ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,495, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"Digital twin service for a fire system" was invented by Leslie A. Field (Fair Lawn, N.J.), William C. Hookway III (Sparta, N.J.), Sharad Kundalik Wagh (Pune, India), Sumit Surwase (Pune, India), Sanyukta Tiwari (Nagpur, India) and Pranav Deshmane (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For service to a fire safety system, all or part of the fire safety system is simulated. This virtual representation may be used with an installed panel or firmware for an actual panel to be installed. The simulation allows for the design, testing, troubleshooting, tr...