ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,492, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building control system with predictive control of carbon emissions using marginal operating emissions rate" was invented by Michael J. Wenzel (Grafton, Wis.), Mohammad N. Elbsat (Milwaukee) and Kirk H. Drees (Cedarburg, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cascaded control system for coordinating and controlling carbon emissions associated with operating building equipment distributed across a plurality of subsystems includes a first controller configured to generate carbon emissions targets for each of a plurality of subsystem...