US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Jan. 13 for "Event engine for building management system using distributed devices and blockchain ledger" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,972, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Event engine for building management system using distributed devices and blockchain ledger" was invented by Matthew Roberts (North Chelmsford, Mass.), Miguel Galvez (Plaistow, N.H.), Stephen Tarmey (Leominster, Mass.) and Ashwin Reddy Lingannagari (Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed event engine for controlling distributed devices of a building management system executes as discrete event processes on distributed devices with sufficient computing power and availability. The distributed devices communic...