ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,616, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for creating and using equipment definitions" was invented by Ryan A. Piaskowski (Milwaukee), Michael E Wagner (Delafield, Wis.), Daniel J. Sonnemann (Waukesha, Wis.), Jeffrey Taylor (Glendale, Wis.) and Corey A. Poquette (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for creating and using equipment definitions are provided. An archetypal device used to identify one or more first data points associated with the archetypal device. A point definition is generated for each identified first data po...