US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Sept. 15 for "Bridge device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,143, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Bridge device" was invented by Faruk Meah (Sunbury-on-Thames, Great Britain), Timothy Andrew James (Harrow, Great Britain), Steven Bennett (Sunbury-on-Thames, Great Britain) and Robert Feltham (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a bridge device which allows for communication between two external devices (e.g. an initiating device and a control device) which use different first and second data encoding schemes, without the need to modify either of the devices. In particular, the b...