US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry on Sept. 22 for "Device and method for routing serial traffic of a building management system" (Illinois, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,732, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Device and method for routing serial traffic of a building management system" was invented by William Choi (Lake Zurich, Ill.), Zackarey Bearss (Chicago), Anthony J. Bednaroski (Windsor, Colo.) and Thomas Evans (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building controller and a method thereof routes serial traffic in a building management system. Non-IP serial traffic is read from a non-IP network of building devices managed by the building controller and forwarded to a building network stack operating on the building controller. The building controll...