ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,311, issued on March 11, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"System and method for determining and predicting vulnerability of building management systems" was invented by Nidhi Sharma (Delhi, India) and Anantharaman Iyer (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for predicting the vulnerability of a building management system (BMS) includes one or more memory devices configured to store instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to establish a first communication link to a first data source and receive a first data using a com...