US Patent Issued to Sensormatic Electronics on May 27 for "System and method for providing power to building management system components using inductive coupling" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,021, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"System and method for providing power to building management system components using inductive coupling" was invented by Walter A. Martin (Ballymena, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mains-powered components of a building management system can be separated from non-mains powered components, allowing for easier and more affordable installation of the latter. In one embodiment, distributed devices of the building management system include a base module and a secondary module. The base module inductively powers the secondary module, which...