ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,955, issued on July 29, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building data platform with digital twin functionality indicators" 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 operates to store a digital twin comprising a building graph, the building graph comprising a plurality of nodes representing a plurality of entities of a building and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes representing relationships between the plural...