ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,542, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Candela IoT Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Virtualizing building management systems" was invented by Karthik Krishnamurthy (Mountain View, Calif.) and Nikhil Sriraman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparati for virtualizing building management systems. An apparatus embodiment comprises a first API for accessing on-premise building management systems; coupled to the first API, a virtualization engine configured to receive and deploy commands to the first API; and coupled to the virtualization engine, a second API configured to receive and deploy commands to the...