ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,287, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building data platform with digital twin based virtual indicators" was invented by Rajiv Ramanasankaran (San Jose, Calif.), Chenlu Zhang (Milwaukee), Ambuj Shatdal (Madison, Wis.) and Young Lee (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building system of a building operates to store a digital twin of the building in the one or more storage devices, wherein a virtual indicator is related to an entity of the building by the digital twin. The building system operates to receive telemetry data for a piece of building equipment of t...