ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,110, issued on March 17, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Building management system with particulate sensing" was invented by Jonathan D. Douglas (Mequon, Wis.), Tyler A. Smith (Franklin, Tenn.) and Kirk H. Drees (Cedarburg, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for particulate sensing of a building. Some embodiments relate to an air handling unit of an HVAC system of a building. The air handling unit includes a zone sensor configured to sample a first zone and measure a first particle disturbance of the first zone, an integrated sampling system includes one or more...