ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,498, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Thermostat with external interrupt" was invented by Sayan Chakraborty (Brookfield, Wis.) and Aaron D. Wagner (Menomonee Falls, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A HVAC system includes building equipment operable to affect a physical state of a space in the building and a controller coupled to the building equipment. The controller is configured to accept a plurality of binary inputs indicating one or more conditions of the space, provide, to the building equipment, a plurality of outputs configured to control the operation of t...