US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Aug. 11 for "Building management system with ethernet cabling for building devices" (Wisconsin, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,992, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building management system with ethernet cabling for building devices" was invented by Ezra M. Imes (Pewaukee, Wis.), Daniel Hjortland (Milwaukee), Abigail Strand (Boca Raton, Fla.), Bruce Hoeppner (Cedarburg, Wis.) and Christopher P. Brophy (Cedarburg, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first building device is for use with a building system of a building. The building system includes second building devices coupled by an Ethernet cable. At least one of the second building devices is coupled to the first building device. The ...