US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Sept. 23 for "Addressable safety device with an optically readable and removable addressing mechanism" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,078, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Addressable safety device with an optically readable and removable addressing mechanism" was invented by Joseph D. Farley (Warwick, Mass.), John Bradley Stowell (Hollis, N.H.) and Stephen John Penney (Feltham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include an addressable device having a base unit mountable on a structure and a device head removably mountable onto the base unit. A removable addressing mechanism is removably mountable onto the base unit and is configured for setting an address for th...