ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,971, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Premises intersystem operations" was invented by Christopher Mark Barrieau (Shirley, Mass.), Dennis Allen Mcevoy (Charlotte, N.C.) and Richard Paul Bonneau (Templeton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A premises system may select a sensor of a fire protection subsystem. A premises system may select one or more elements of the one or more other subsystems. A premises system may collect data across the selected sensors and selected elements for a period of time. A premises system may analyze the collected data for correlation a...