ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,893, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Digital twin incident response" was invented by John A. Stone (Milwaukee) and Ryan A. Piaskowski (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing on-premises response to an incident impacting a space of a building are provided. One method includes storing digital twins of one or more on-premises building devices of the building in a memory device within the space. The digital twins include digital representations of the on-premises building devices including data relating to the on-premises building dev...