ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,803, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Response management in an indoor facility" was invented by Vijay Nallusamy (Bangalore, India), Sivakumar Kanagarajan (Bangalore, India) and Gobinathan Baladhandapani (Madurai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for response management in an indoor facility are described. A server device processes a signal from an unmanned vehicle to deduce occurrence of an actionable event. A preliminary location of the occurrence of the actionable event is determined based on an instantaneous position of the unmanned vehicle at the time of transmitt...