US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Sept. 23 for "Devices and methods for network integration of an HVAC device" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,294, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Devices and methods for network integration of an HVAC device" was invented by Donald A. Gottschalk (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Michael R. Brownie (Milwaukee), Gary A. Romanowich (Slinger, Wis.), Robert K. Alexander (Jackson, Wis.) and Nathan J. Vandermause (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system on a chip for enabling communication between a building management system (BMS) device and a BMS network. The system on a chip includes a device interface, a network interface, and a processing circuit. The device interface is config...