ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,468, issued on May 6, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Building controller with managed multiport switch" was invented by Michael A. Pouchak (St. Anthony, Minn.), John Hutchey (Henderson, Nev.) and Lou Jones (Dayton, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building controller is configured to control one or more building system components of a building control system. In one example, the building controller includes a housing and one or more wiring terminals that are accessible from outside of the housing. A controller is housed by the housing and is operatively coupled to the one or more wiring terminal...