US Patent Issued on Nov. 18 for "Non-standard security devices that provide inputs to security systems" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,936, issued on Nov. 18.

"Non-standard security devices that provide inputs to security systems" was invented by Paul G. Saldin (Stillwater, Minn.), David J. Mayne (Eagan, Minn.) and Brian K. Seemann (Lakeville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes defining, in a security system, a non-standard security device rule that describes a pattern of signals, from one or more non-standard security devices, that may be received by a security system, wherein the non-standard security device rule defines an action to perform when the non-standard security device rule is satisfied; mon...