ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,151, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Building supervisory control system having safety features" was invented by Petr Endel (Prague), Karel Marik (Revnice, Czech Republic) and Kapil Sharma (Midlothian, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building supervisory control structure having a supervisor connectable to a cloud and a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) unit connected to the supervisor and the cloud. A safety features stack is connected to the supervisor. The safety features stack includes a connectivity check automated fail-over, an optimization watchdog, a rule...