Patents by Inventor Eric G. Lang
Eric G. Lang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12530040Abstract: A rooftop unit includes a housing, air conditioning components coupled to the housing and onboard circuitry enclosed within and/or coupled to the housing. The onboard circuitry is programmed to receive data from a plurality of data sources communicably coupled to the onboard circuitry. The data is received in a plurality of different formats according to a plurality different protocols. The onboard circuitry is also configured to translate the data from the plurality of formats into a common data format and perform operations onboard the rooftop unit using the data in the common data format.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 20, 2026Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Abu Bakr Khan, Trent M Swanson, Sastry Malladi, Vineet Binodshanker Sinha, Tazmin Pirani, Rajesh Venkat, Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Patent number: 12493269Abstract: Systems and methods for building management utilizing adaptive edge processing are disclosed. The building system can store gateway components on storage devices. The gateway components can facilitate communication with a cloud platform and facilitate communication with a physical building device. The building system can identify a computing system of the building that is in communication with the physical building device. The physical building device can store one or more data samples. The building system can deploy the gateway components to the computing system responsive to identifying that the computing system is in communication with the physical building device. The gateway components can cause the computing system to communicate with the physical building device to receive the one or more data samples and cause the computing system to communicate the one or more data samples to the cloud platform.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 9, 2025Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Patent number: 12481259Abstract: A method can include activating a building platform chip integrated into a building device of a building and coupled with a processing circuit of the building device. The method can include retrieving, by the building platform chip, first data from the processing circuit of the building device through communication with the processing circuit. The method can include generating, by the building platform chip, second data to cause a digital twin of the building device to be constructed.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 25, 2025Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Miguel Galvez, Richard J. Campero, Eric G. Lang, Abu Bakr Khan, Donald A. Gottschalk, Jr., Daniel M. Curtis, Trent M. Swanson, Karl F. Reichenberger
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Publication number: 20250321552Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing building automation and control network (BACnet) stacks having socket-based application programming interfaces (APIs) are disclosed. A system can implement a BACnet component. The BACnet component can provide socket-based API configured to receive commands for accessing at least one BACnet system. The BACnet component can receive, via the socket-based API, a first command to be communicated via a BACnet protocol. The BACnet component can convert the first command to a BACnet instruction. The BACnet component can transmit the BACnet instruction using the BACnet protocol to the BACnet system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2024Publication date: October 16, 2025Inventors: Louis Nunzio Loizides, Eric G. Lang, Christopher Charles Davidoff, Shivam Rajvanshi, Redick Simon
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Publication number: 20250315032Abstract: A chiller includes a housing, a main control board positioned in the housing and configured to control the chiller, and a communications board positioned in the housing and including a virtual subscriber identity module (SIM) configured to provide communications between the chiller and a cellular network external to the chiller.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2025Publication date: October 9, 2025Inventors: Gary W. Gavin, James Williams, Kaleb Luedtke, Ezra M. Imes, Trent M. Swanson, Murali R. Namburi, Eric G. Lang
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Patent number: 12436513Abstract: Systems and methods for building management utilizing adaptive edge processing are disclosed. The building system can store gateway components on storage devices. The gateway components can facilitate communication with a cloud platform and facilitate communication with a physical building device. The building system can identify a computing system of the building that is in communication with the physical building device. The physical building device can store one or more data samples. The building system can deploy the gateway components to the computing system responsive to identifying that the computing system is in communication with the physical building device. The gateway components can cause the computing system to communicate with the physical building device to receive the one or more data samples and cause the computing system to communicate the one or more data samples to the cloud platform.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Publication number: 20250251165Abstract: A system includes a first unit of building equipment and a plurality of additional units of building equipment operable to provide heating, ventilation, or cooling to a building. Local processing circuitry of the first unit is configured to perform a first set of analytics using data for the first unit of building equipment and data from the plurality of additional units of building equipment as inputs to a pattern recognition or machine learning algorithm; receive, from a computing system separate from the local processing circuitry, a second set of analytics based on the data for the first unit of building equipment and the data from the plurality of additional units of building equipment; and operate the first unit of building equipment in accordance with a combination of a first output of the first set of analytics and a second output of the second set of analytics.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2025Publication date: August 7, 2025Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Abu Bakr Khan, Trent M. Swanson, Sastry Malladi, Vineet Binodshanker Sinha, Tazmin Pirani, Rajesh Venkat, Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Patent number: 12346073Abstract: Systems and methods for building management utilizing adaptive edge processing are disclosed. The building system can store gateway components on storage devices. The gateway components can facilitate communication with a cloud platform and facilitate communication with a physical building device. The building system can identify a computing system of the building that is in communication with the physical building device. The physical building device can store one or more data samples. The building system can deploy the gateway components to the computing system responsive to identifying that the computing system is in communication with the physical building device. The gateway components can cause the computing system to communicate with the physical building device to receive the one or more data samples and cause the computing system to communicate the one or more data samples to the cloud platform.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Patent number: 12271166Abstract: Systems and methods for building management utilizing adaptive edge processing are disclosed. The building system can store gateway components on storage devices. The gateway components can facilitate communication with a cloud platform and facilitate communication with a physical building device. The building system can identify a computing system of the building that is in communication with the physical building device. The physical building device can store one or more data samples. The building system can deploy the gateway components to the computing system responsive to identifying that the computing system is in communication with the physical building device. The gateway components can cause the computing system to communicate with the physical building device to receive the one or more data samples and cause the computing system to communicate the one or more data samples to the cloud platform.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Publication number: 20250102176Abstract: A chiller includes a housing, a main chiller control board positioned in the housing, a communications board positioned in the housing, a first communication channel between the main chiller control board and the communications board, and a second communication channel between the main chiller control board and the communications board. The second communications channel provides higher bandwidth communications than the first communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Gary W. Gavin, James Williams, Kaleb Luedtke, Ezra M. Imes, Trent M. Swanson, Murali R. Namburi, Eric G. Lang
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Publication number: 20250103028Abstract: A chiller includes cooling components configured to chill a fluid, a housing coupled to the cooling components, an antenna positioned at an exterior of the housing, a circuit board positioned in the housing and comprising a plurality of mounting points, an antenna mount fastened to the plurality of mounting points such that the antenna mount is disposed over a portion of the circuit board, and a cable extending from the antenna mount to the antenna via a hole in the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Gary W. Gavin, James Williams, Kaleb Luedtke, Ezra M. Imes, Trent M. Swanson, Murali R. Namburi, Eric G. Lang
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Publication number: 20250102175Abstract: A chiller includes cooling components configured to chill a fluid, a housing coupled to the cooling components, an antenna positioned at an exterior of the housing, a circuit board positioned in the housing and comprising a plurality of mounting points, an antenna mount fastened to the plurality of mounting points such that the antenna mount is disposed over a portion of the circuit board, and a cable extending from the antenna mount to the antenna via a hole in the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Gary W. Gavin, James Williams, Kaleb Luedtke, Ezra M. Imes, Trent M. Swanson, Murali R. Namburi, Eric G. Lang, Nils A. Bergman
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Publication number: 20250020349Abstract: 1. A system includes a unit of building equipment serving a building and including a heating, ventilation, or cooling component and onboard circuitry configured to execute a configuration routine stored on the circuitry which automatically configures parameters of the building equipment based on the signals received from sensors and devices at the building. The system also includes a cloud system communicably connectable to the onboard circuitry and configured to influence the configuration routine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Abu Bakr Khan, Trent M. Swanson, Sastry Malladi, Vineet Binodshanker Sinha, Tazmin Pirani, Rajesh Venkat, Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Patent number: 12124233Abstract: Systems and methods for building management utilizing adaptive edge processing are disclosed. The building system can store gateway components on storage devices. The gateway components can facilitate communication with a cloud platform and facilitate communication with a physical building device. The building system can identify a computing system of the building that is in communication with the physical building device. The physical building device can store one or more data samples. The building system can deploy the gateway components to the computing system responsive to identifying that the computing system is in communication with the physical building device. The gateway components can cause the computing system to communicate with the physical building device to receive the one or more data samples and cause the computing system to communicate the one or more data samples to the cloud platform.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Patent number: 12107920Abstract: A universal gateway device includes a first network interface circuit and a second network interface circuit. The first network interface circuit is utilized to communicate over a first network associated with an Internet of Things (IoT) management system utilizing a first communications protocol. The second network interface circuit is utilized to communicate over a second network associated with an IoT device utilizing a second communications protocol that is different from the first communications protocol. The first network interface circuit generates a virtual device representation of the IoT device on the first network. The virtual device representation is utilized to communicate data from the IoT device over the first network utilizing the first communications protocol.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Pramod Balbhim Kolhapure, Chetan Bidap, Bakul Amit Tulankar, Eric G. Lang, Shawn D. Schubert, Amarender Babu Kaveti
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Publication number: 20240288193Abstract: A method includes providing a plurality of units building equipment operable to directly affect one or more physical conditions of a building, connecting the plurality of units of building equipment to a communication network, and automatically establishing, by the plurality of units of building equipment, communications between the plurality of units of building equipment and an off-premise server via the communication network. Such communications are preferably not routed through any controllers external to the plurality of units of building equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Abu Bakr Khan, Trent M Swanson, Sastry Malladi, Vineet Binodshanker Sinha, Tazmin Pirani, Rajesh Venkat, Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Patent number: 12055906Abstract: Systems and methods for building management utilizing adaptive edge processing are disclosed. The building system can store gateway components on storage devices. The gateway components can facilitate communication with a cloud platform and facilitate communication with a physical building device. The building system can identify a computing system of the building that is in communication with the physical building device. The physical building device can store one or more data samples. The building system can deploy the gateway components to the computing system responsive to identifying that the computing system is in communication with the physical building device. The gateway components can cause the computing system to communicate with the physical building device to receive the one or more data samples and cause the computing system to communicate the one or more data samples to the cloud platform.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Patent number: 12050017Abstract: A system includes a unit of building equipment serving a building and including a heating, ventilation, or cooling component and onboard circuitry configured to execute a configuration routine stored on the circuitry which automatically configures parameters of the rooftop unit based on the signals received from sensors and devices at the building. The system also includes a cloud system communicably connectable to the onboard circuitry and configured to influence the configuration routine.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Abu Bakr Khan, Trent M. Swanson, Sastry Malladi, Vineet Binodshanker Sinha, Tazmin Pirani, Rajesh Venkat, Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Publication number: 20240168445Abstract: Systems and methods for building management utilizing adaptive edge processing are disclosed. The building system can store gateway components on storage devices. The gateway components can facilitate communication with a cloud platform and facilitate communication with a physical building device. The building system can identify a computing system of the building that is in communication with the physical building device. The physical building device can store one or more data samples. The building system can deploy the gateway components to the computing system responsive to identifying that the computing system is in communication with the physical building device. The gateway components can cause the computing system to communicate with the physical building device to receive the one or more data samples and cause the computing system to communicate the one or more data samples to the cloud platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2024Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
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Publication number: 20240111263Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for optimization and autoconfiguration of edge processing devices are disclosed. A cloud computing system can receive a request to configure a target building device. The cloud computing system can identify, based on the target building device, a connector template for the target building device. The connector template can include one or more parameters for a connector component configured to cause the target building device to communicate with the cloud computing system. cloud computing system can generate the connector component for the target building device based on the one or more parameters. cloud computing system can deploy the connector component to the target building device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Murali R. Namburi, David R. Koberstein, Manish K. Kalbande, Sastry K. Malladi, Trent M. Swanson, Abu Bakr Khan, Eric G. Lang, Miguel Galvez, David A. Duncan, Bryan Skene, Nicholas Marrone