ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,395, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION LLC (Bradenton, Fla.).

"Fire system interoperability protocol" was invented by Antonio Montero (Bradenton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and emergency system for performing a system interoperability protocol. A method may include discovering, at a first interoperability node of a first network including a first plurality of network nodes, and a second interoperability node of a second network including a second plurality of network nodes, the first network is different from the second network; and performing a protocol version compatibility check between the f...