ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,714, issued on July 14, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"HVAC equipment with wireless connectivity features" was invented by Kyle Christian (Noble, Okla.), Randy Raymond Koivisto (Noble, Okla.) and Micah Taylor Green (El Reno, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system in accordance with present embodiments includes a housing, one or more sensing units disposed within the housing, and a controller disposed within the housing. The controller is operable to communicate with the one or more sensing units through a wireless communicat...