ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,431, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Upgrading fire panel firmware using machine learning" was invented by Guruprasad Vishvanath Mahendrakar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for upgrading fire panel firmware using machine learning are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a fire panel comprising a processor and a memory having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to collect operational data associated with a fire system controlled by the fire panel device over...