ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,499, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building management system with clean air and infection reduction features" was invented by Michael J. Risbeck (Madison, Wis.), Young M. Lee (Old Westbury, N.Y.), Jonathan D. Douglas (Mequon, Wis.) and Martin Z. Bazant (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for executing an IAQ analysis of a building. One system includes a controller including memory and one or more processors configured to obtain IAQ data from one or more sensors within the building, wherein the IAQ data is associated with at least ...