US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Dec. 2 for "Building management system with exchangeable communication interfaces" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,808, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building management system with exchangeable communication interfaces" was invented by Vivek V. Gupta (Menomonee Falls, Wis.), Daniel R. Gottschalk (Racine, Wis.), William R. Kuckuk (Hubertus, Wis.), Adam J. Scott (Grafton, Wis.), Mark T. Fischbach (New Berlin, Wis.), James J. Mertz (Wind Lake, Wis.), Yogesh N. Jalkote (Killari, India) and Sudhanshu Dixit (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building management system (BMS) includes building equipment operable to affect a physical state or condition of a building, a gateway ...