US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Sept. 15 for "Fast activation of a group of remote notification devices" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,148, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Fast activation of a group of remote notification devices" was invented by Nalin C. Ahangama Ralalage (Brossard Quebec, Canada) and Sebastien Choquette (Beloeil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire alarm control panel (FACP), method, and computer program product for interfacing a FACP with remote notification devices. The aspects include receiving, by the FACP, a single input command configured to contemporaneously control a power condition of multiple groups of the remote notification devices by specifically identifyi...