US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on March 31 for "Building management system with particulate sensing" (Wisconsin, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,721, issued on March 31, 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 ducting, one or more air dampers coupled to the ducting, and an integrated sampling system including piping coupled to at least one of the ducting or the one ...