ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,434, issued on March 25, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Control system with multi-factor carbon emissions optimization" was invented by Michael J. Wenzel (Grafton, Wis.) and Mohammad N. Elbsat (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a first subsystem configured to produce a resource by consuming electricity, a second subsystem configured to produce the resource by consuming a fuel, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine an allocation of a predicted demand for the resource over a future time period between the first subsystem and the second su...