ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,018, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Automated cloud hosted BMS archive and difference engine" was invented by Gregory T. Reichl (Kaukana, Wis.), Feng Wang (Milwaukee), Daniel J. Sonnemann (Waukesha, Wis.) and Craig A. Lind (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining updates in a building management system (BMS) is shown. The method includes receiving, via an on premise server, configuration data associated with at least part of the BMS. The method includes storing the configuration data within a cloud server communicably coupled with the on pr...