ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,643, issued on June 24, was assigned to 1AHEAD Technologies (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Security surveillance and entry management system" was invented by Ronald Carter (Matthews, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial intelligence (AI) entry management (EM) security system includes a camera, a microphone, a motion detector, a speaker, and a software platform. Geofences are utilized to create boundaries around physical areas, such as locations for package delivery or property boundaries. The EM device and other devices connected to the software platform are configured to monitor the geofences and detect a presence of an activity, ...