ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,324, issued on April 22, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Model predictive maintenance system with degradation impact model" was invented by Mohammad N. Elbsat (Milwaukee), Michael J. Wenzel (Oak Creek, Wis.) and Robert D. Turney (Watertown, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model predictive maintenance (MPM) system for building equipment includes one or more processing circuits having one or more processors and memory. The memory store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including estimating a degrad...