ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,027, issued on July 1, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Web services for smart entity management for sensor systems" was invented by Youngchoon Park (Brookfield, Wis.), Sudhi R. Sinha (Milwaukee), Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran (Brookfield, Wis.), Erik S. Paulson (Madison, Wis.) and Vijaya S. Chennupati (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including generating a database of interconnected smart enti...