ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,975, issued on April 21, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building management system with containerized engines" was invented by Siva Naga Babu Kammela (Gunter, India), Donald A Gottschalk Jr. (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Daniel R Gottschalk (Racine, Wis.), Anand Bongale (Mumbai, India), Pranay Joshi (Gurgaon, India), Deepak Uppal (Pitampura, India), Vivek V. Gupta (Menomonee Falls, Wis.) and Peter J. Hazelberg (Dousman, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a building management system (BMS) comprising one or more field equipment controllers, and at least one co...