US Patent Issued to HLI SOLUTIONS on June 24 for "Central reporting for life safety equipment" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,442, issued on June 24, was assigned to HLI SOLUTIONS INC. (Greenville, S.C.).

"Central reporting for life safety equipment" was invented by Robert Richard Papstein II (Greenville, S.C.) and Allen George Cyr (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency lighting system and a method for operating same. The emergency lighting system includes an area control device, a storage device, an external device and a plurality of emergency lighting devices operably connected to the area control device. In addition, each emergency lighting device includes a light, a controller having an electronic processor configured to perform a...