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).

  • Patent number: 12530040
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Abu Bakr Khan, Trent M Swanson, Sastry Malladi, Vineet Binodshanker Sinha, Tazmin Pirani, Rajesh Venkat, Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Patent number: 12493269
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Patent number: 12481259
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Miguel Galvez, Richard J. Campero, Eric G. Lang, Abu Bakr Khan, Donald A. Gottschalk, Jr., Daniel M. Curtis, Trent M. Swanson, Karl F. Reichenberger
  • Publication number: 20250321552
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 16, 2025
    Inventors: Louis Nunzio Loizides, Eric G. Lang, Christopher Charles Davidoff, Shivam Rajvanshi, Redick Simon
  • Publication number: 20250315032
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2025
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Inventors: Gary W. Gavin, James Williams, Kaleb Luedtke, Ezra M. Imes, Trent M. Swanson, Murali R. Namburi, Eric G. Lang
  • Patent number: 12436513
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Publication number: 20250251165
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Abu Bakr Khan, Trent M. Swanson, Sastry Malladi, Vineet Binodshanker Sinha, Tazmin Pirani, Rajesh Venkat, Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Patent number: 12346073
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Patent number: 12271166
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Publication number: 20250102176
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Gary W. Gavin, James Williams, Kaleb Luedtke, Ezra M. Imes, Trent M. Swanson, Murali R. Namburi, Eric G. Lang
  • Publication number: 20250103028
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Gary W. Gavin, James Williams, Kaleb Luedtke, Ezra M. Imes, Trent M. Swanson, Murali R. Namburi, Eric G. Lang
  • Publication number: 20250102175
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Gary W. Gavin, James Williams, Kaleb Luedtke, Ezra M. Imes, Trent M. Swanson, Murali R. Namburi, Eric G. Lang, Nils A. Bergman
  • Publication number: 20250020349
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Abu Bakr Khan, Trent M. Swanson, Sastry Malladi, Vineet Binodshanker Sinha, Tazmin Pirani, Rajesh Venkat, Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Patent number: 12124233
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Patent number: 12107920
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Pramod Balbhim Kolhapure, Chetan Bidap, Bakul Amit Tulankar, Eric G. Lang, Shawn D. Schubert, Amarender Babu Kaveti
  • Publication number: 20240288193
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Abu Bakr Khan, Trent M Swanson, Sastry Malladi, Vineet Binodshanker Sinha, Tazmin Pirani, Rajesh Venkat, Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Patent number: 12055906
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Patent number: 12050017
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Abu Bakr Khan, Trent M. Swanson, Sastry Malladi, Vineet Binodshanker Sinha, Tazmin Pirani, Rajesh Venkat, Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Publication number: 20240168445
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Publication number: 20240111263
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: 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