ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,159, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Schneider Electric Buildings Americas Inc. (Carrollton, Texas).

"Systems and methods for reconfiguring rooms in an area in a building" was invented by Leif Roger Torbjorn Nilsson (Sodra Sandby, Sweden), Lars-Eric Ragnar Assarsson (Klagshamn, Sweden) and Andreas Karl Fredrik Hakansson (Sodra Sandby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for reconfiguring rooms or zones within an area in building automation are disclosed. One of the methods includes receiving a user request to group together at least a first segment and a second segment in a zone and verifying the user reques...