ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,111, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Control access utilizing video analytics" was invented by Gary Franklin Bart (Weston, Fla.) and Dean Constantine (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method including receiving, by a monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property and from a touchless doorbell device that includes a camera and a motion sensor, an image, analyzing, by the monitoring system, the image, based on analyzing the image, determining that the image likely includes a representation of a person, and based on determining that the image likely ...