ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,772, issued on April 7, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Central plant control system with asset allocation override" was invented by Mohammad N. Elbsat (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for building equipment that operate to produce or consume resources for a building or campus. The controller performs an optimization of an objective function subject to an override constraint to determine values for a plurality of decision variables indicating amounts of resources to be produced or consumed by the building equipment. The override constraint defines one or more of ...