ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,429, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Intelligent emergency response for multi-tenant dwelling units" was invented by Jed Menard (Littleton, Colo.), Alexander Kappler (Arlington, Va.), John Murdock (Arlington, Va.), Jasper Bingham (Washington), Gustaf Nicolaus Maxwell Lonaeus (Washington) and Kyle Rankin Johnson (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, for a multi-tenant dwelling unit (MDU), a map of the MDU, where the map includes locations corresponding to multiple sensors at the MDU and def...