US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Aug. 12 for "Control system with coordinated equipment staging" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,659, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Control system with coordinated equipment staging" was invented by Jon T. Mueller (Milwaukee) and Joseph P. Carmody (Saukville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment includes a communications interface configured to communicate with first HVAC equipment and second HVAC equipment and a processing circuit communicably coupled to the communications interface. The processing circuit is configured to detect a staging event for the first HVAC equipment occurring ...