ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,586, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Swimming pool monitoring" was invented by Donald Madden (Columbia, Md.) and Daniel Todd Kerzner (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitor control unit that is configured to receive, from the electronic pool device, the sensor data, compare the sensor data to a threshold, based on comparing the sensor data to a threshold, determine that the sensor data exceeds the threshold, based on determining that the sensor data exceeds the threshold, provide an instruction to initiate the capture of image data by the camera of the electronic pool device, receive, f...