ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,467, issued on March 25, was assigned to Carrier Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"System and method for fire suppression by coupling fire detection with building systems" was invented by Michael J. Birnkrant (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), May L. Corn (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Marcin Piech (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) and Changmin Cao (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated fire suppression system includes a plurality of fire detection systems. Each of the fire detection systems is individually addressable. A control system is communicatively coupled to each of the fire detection systems. A plurality of ...