US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on May 27 for "System and method for tracking locations of students within school buildings" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,156, issued on May 27, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"System and method for tracking locations of students within school buildings" was invented by Miguel Galvez (Plaistow, N.H.), Walter A. Martin (Ballymena, Great Britain) and Danny Hyun (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A student tracking system deploys distributed sensors throughout a school building. The distributed sensors receive identification information broadcast by user devices carried by occupants of the school such as students, teachers and school administrators. The student tracking system tracks the locatio...