ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,561, issued on April 8, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for automated system identification" was invented by Matthew J. Ellis (Milwaukee), Mohammad N. Elbsat (Milwaukee), Anas W. I. Alanqar (Milwaukee), Michael J. Wenzel (Grafton, Wis.) and John H. Burroughs (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for performing automated system identification. The controller includes processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including generating a...