US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Feb. 17 for "Object hierarchy to support device configuration in physical access control systems" (New Hampshire Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,949, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Object hierarchy to support device configuration in physical access control systems" was invented by Rolando Herrero (Amherst, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for configuring a device in a physical security system via an open architecture. The device receives a command from an application via a publish-and-subscribe broker. The command includes: a type field indicating the command, a source field indicating the application, a timestamp, and a pa...