ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,152, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods and systems to determine a service time for providing a service" was invented by Ramesh Lingala (Telangana, India) and Suresh Raman (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method for determining a service time for providing a service to a room based on an availability of a user in the room. One or more embodiments of the invention describe the method comprising steps of receiving audits associated with a lock of a room. One or more embodiments of the invention further d...