ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,574, issued on June 17, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Vehicle occupancy monitor" was invented by Allison Beach (Leesburg, Va.), Andrew Scanlon (Falls Church, Va.), Matthew Daniel Correnti (Newtown Square, Pa.), Michael Kelly (Washington) and Robert Nathan Picardi (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for monitoring a vehicle are disclosed. A vehicle monitoring system for monitoring a vehicle includes one or more processors and one or more computer storage media storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the ...