ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,528, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building management system with supervisory fault detection layer" was invented by Mohammad N. Elbsat (Milwaukee), Michael J. Wenzel (Oak Creek, Wis.), Jingduo Fan (Milwaukee), Joshua D. Carl (Milwaukee) and Robert D. Turney (Watertown, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting faults in a building management system (BMS) is shown. The method includes receiving time series data characterizing an operating performance of one or more BMS devices. The method further includes processing the time series data using multi...