ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,781, issued on July 28, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Control panel for fire alarm systems and a method for updating the configuration information" was invented by Vaibhav Gupta (Bareilly, India), Sumit Tiwari (Hadapsar, India), Praveen Deshpande (Atul Nagar, India) and Shishir Tiwari (Dhanori, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control panel for a fire alarm system and a method for updating configuration information of a control panel are disclosed. The control panel includes a communication module for short-range communication with a portable electronic device and a processing...