ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,816, issued on May 26, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Microcontroller unit platform" was invented by Robert C. Hall Jr. (Brown Deer, Wis.), Timothy C. Gamroth (Dousman, Wis.) and Justin J. Seifi (Cedarburg, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building device including a circuit board having a plurality of connection points, and a microcontroller (MCU) module having a plurality of pads and a plurality of receivers, each of the plurality of pads to connect to one of the plurality of connection points of the circuit board, and each of the plurality of receivers to removably couple a pi...