ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,911, issued on July 7, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"IOT mechanism for device to application communication in physical access control systems" was invented by Rolando Herrero (Amherst, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for configuring a device in a physical security system via an open architecture. The device establishes an application message layer session by exchanging certificates with a publish-and-subscribe broker and subscribing to a first topic from the application to the device. The device rec...