ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,749, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"False alarm detection and diagnostics" was invented by Dennis Schirmer (Roswell, Ga.), Tim Granzow (Emmerthal, Germany), Ali Daher (Munich) and Ekaterina Paerschke (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security systems and methods thereof perform false alarm detection and diagnostics. A management station identifies at least one instance of an alarm at an access-controlled door within a predetermined time period. The management station also determines the possible root cause based on the two or more instances occurring within the predetermined time per...