ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,662, issued on June 17.

"Self-healing video surveillance system" was invented by James Carey (Commack, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring a computing device in a network of at least one remote device is disclosed. The method includes: storing, in a remote device, a configuration data archive relating to an existing computing device, wherein the remote device is at least one of a traffic camera or an aerial drone camera; determining, by a computing device to be configured, whether the remote device has stored therein a configuration data archive; and transferring data from the configuration data archive to th...