ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,182, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building data platform with analytics development" was invented by Rajiv Ramanasankaran (San Jose, Calif.), Ambuj Shatdal (Madison, Wis.), Michael James Risbeck (Madison, Wis.), Chenlu Zhang (Milwaukee) and Krishnamurthy Selvaraj (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building system can operate to receive an indication from a user device of a user to query a digital twin of one or more buildings, the digital twin including entities including buildings, equipment, spaces, or data of the one or more buildings, the equipment, or...