ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,814, issued on July 14, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Building system with brokering architecture and tiered storage for realtime applications" was invented by Andrew J. Przybylski (Franksville, Wis.), Jon T. Mueller (Lebanon, Ky.) and John H. Burroughs (Wauwautosa, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brokering system used in distributed building controls provides multiple tiers of storage. Data can be requested at any time during the processing of new data received from a building device. Complex event processors, low latency control, and/or display interfaces may request and be ...