ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,228, issued on July 8, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Fault protection for security system controllers" was invented by Nilesh Ashok Naik (Sawantawadi Maharastra, India), Ankit Panchal (Milwaukee) and Ankit Sinha (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fault protection for security system controllers is disclosed. An apparatus in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes for a reverse-polarity protection circuit, an overcurrent protection circuit, or the combination of a reverse polarity circuit and an overcurrent protection circuit."

The patent was filed on July 1...