US Patent Issued to SIEMENS SCHWEIZ on Oct. 7 for "Extending BACnet systems to scale up to large topologies" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,744, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG (Zurich).

"Extending BACnet systems to scale up to large topologies" was invented by Bernhard Isler (Wilen b. Wollerau, Switzerland) and Kai Rohrbacher (Hunenberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various teachings include methods and/or BACnet network systems to extend BACnet network systems for building automation systems to scale up to large topologies. The BACnet network system comprises a network of BACnet devices organized as a virtual hub-and-spoke network. One of the BACnet devices is implemented as a directed hub-device to which all other BACnet devices are c...