ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,819, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method of virtualizing a security panel, fire panel, and access panel using private 5G network slices" was invented by Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan (Hopkins, Minn.), Amit Kulkarni (Plymouth, Minn.), Jesse J. Otis (North Haven, Conn.) and Ulf Duerr (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for virtualizing a security panel, fire panel, and/or access panel using 5G network slices are described herein. One on-premise virtualized building control panel system device, includes a processor, memory, having instructio...