ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,248, issued on April 1, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Adaptation of a security control panel" was invented by Thomas Rogers (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes receiving one or more user set preferences for detecting a hub alarm condition and one or more actions to perform in response to detecting a hub alarm condition, receiving, from the output of the security panel, data indicating that a traditional alarm condition occurred, based on receiving data indicating a traditional alarm condition occurred at the monitored property, receiving sensor data from at least one ...