US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on Oct. 28 for "Communications bridge with unified building alarm processing" (Emirati Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,362, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Communications bridge with unified building alarm processing" was invented by Saleem Syed (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, at a communications bridge, a first alarm and a second alarm from a domain system serving a facility, assigning, by the communications bridge, an alarm expiry time to the first alarm, labeling, by the communications bridge, the second alarm as noise based on whether the second alarm has a generation time before the alarm expiry time assigned to the first...