ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,491, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building data platform with digital twin-based diagnostic routines" was invented by Rajiv Ramanasankaran (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ambuj Shatdal (Madison, Wis.), Michael James Risbeck (Madison, Wis.) and Young Lee (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building system including one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to store a plurality of digital twins, the plurality of digital twins comprising a virtual representation of a building, deter...