ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,805, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Smart building data connector" was invented by Nellie Martin (Libertyville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a smart building data connector, and method thereof, of a building management system. A payload of a local data device is identified for transmission to a remote cloud device. The connector determines whether a remote cloud device is ready to receive the payload. The payload is transmitted to the remote cloud device in response to determining that the remote cloud device is ready to receive the payload. The connector determine...