ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,268, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Control system for building equipment with secondary strong prevention" was invented by Jared Fread (Milwaukee), Ryan C. Beaty (Milwaukee), Shawn A. Schlagenhaft (Fon du Lac, Wis.) and Graeme Willmott (West Milwaukee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling building equipment includes building equipment configured to output a resource having a measurable characteristic, a sensor configured obtain a measurement of the measurable characteristic, and a control system. The control system is configured to calculat...