ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,499, issued on June 23, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for ranking recommendations" was invented by Rajesh Nayak (Vidyaratna Nagar Manipal, India), Vineet Binodshanker Sinha (Brookfield, Wis.) and Tulshiram Waghmare (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of ranking recommendations includes receiving, by one or more processing circuits, a recommendation including an indication of an equipment fault, retrieving, by the one or more processing circuits, context data associated with the equipment fault, the context data including at least three of a first...