ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,290, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System for dynamic configuration of devices/equipment using templates" was invented by Manish Gupta (Charlotte, N.C.), Prabhat Ranjan (Charlotte, N.C.), Gutha Stalin Sanghamitra (Charlotte, N.C.) and Nagasree Poluri (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building management system, such as a small or medium business, having one or more control devices. Assigning codes to devices, and reading and listing them may aid in configuring the devices. Templates may be used for dynamic configuration of devices and equipment. Representing termin...