ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,381, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building management system with semantic model integration" was invented by Kunal Saini (Brookfield, Wis.), Gerald A. Asp (Milwaukee), Matthew T. Trawicki (Franklin, Wis.) and Craig A. Lind (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building management system (BMS) includes one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon. When executed by one or more processors, the instructions cause the processors to perform operations including ingesting semantic information associated with a plurality of BMS objects, classifying ...