ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,327, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for configuring a fire alarm control panel" was invented by Jason S. Crouch (Delray Beach, Fla.), Robin M. C. Perkins (Phillipston, Mass.) and Jason M. Spiva (Jenks, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for configuring a fire alarm control panel (FACP) is configured to receive a first user input identifying a configuration requirement of the FACP, obtain configuration data for a plurality of FACP components capable of being included in the FACP, the configuration data indicating at least one of a size...