ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,986, issued on April 14, was assigned to Thorn Security Ltd. (Sunbury-on-Thames, Great Britain).

"Methods for setting addresses in a building management system and installation tool for such a system" was invented by Prasad Kulkarni (Winnersh, Great Britain), Praveen Deshpande (Pune, India), Faruk Meah (Woking, Great Britain), Nikhil Kulkarni (Pune, India) and Vishal Bhosale (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of setting the address of an addressable network device of a building management system comprises: at the point of installation of the device on a network wiring of the system, operating a code scanner of an i...