ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,582, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).
"Image surveillance and reporting technology" was invented by Stephen Scott Trundle (Falls Church, Va.), Robert J. McCarthy Jr. (Vienna, Va.), Jean-Paul Martin (Oakton, Va.), Alison Jane Slavin (Falls Church, Va.) and David James Hutz (Herndon, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image surveillance and reporting technology, in which an event that is indicative of potential physical activity within an area corresponding to a location of a camera unit is detected. In response to detection of the event, the camera unit is controlled to capture one or more images of the a...