ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,795, issued on April 8, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Property communication and access control" was invented by Andrei Aurelian Furtuna (Annandale, Va.) and Matthew Daniel Correnti (Newtown Square, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for property communication and access control. In some implementations, a corresponding method includes receiving a data sequence input from a property related to an event at the property; comparing the data sequence input to one or more sequence templates to determine a matching sequence temp...