ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,453, issued on July 8, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Predicting fire spread in a facility" was invented by Karthikeyan Muthukrishnan (Salem, India), Mahadevan Somasundram Balakrishnan (Chennai, India), K Ganesh (Andalpuram, India), Sameer Tripathi (Bengaluru, India) and Gaddigesh Nagappa Admani (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for predicting fire spread in a facility are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a computing device comprising a processor and a memory having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the p...