ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,009, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Integrated, interdependent system for verifying fire alarms" was invented by Anushka Srivastava (Bengaluru, India), Rajesh Babu Nalukurthy (Atlanta), Jesse J. Otis (North Haven, Conn.), Poshith Udayashankar (Bangalore, India) and Vipin Das E K (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One method includes identifying a fire event by analyzing sensor data from at least one sensor of a fire sensing device of a fire alarm subsystem at a facility being monitored by the fire alarm subsystem, after identifying the fire event by analyzing the se...