ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,831, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for providing custom applications for HVAC systems" was invented by Aron M. Seiler (White Hall, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system is provided. The HVAC system includes a non-transitory computer readable medium that includes instructions that are configured to cause a processor to generate a custom application for an HVAC unit in response to an inquiry regarding the HVAC unit. The custom application comprises a custom sequence of equipment operation of...