ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,726, issued on March 25, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).
"Digital fingerprint tracking" was invented by David James Hutz (Herndon, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for tracking intruders of a monitored property by the unique identifying characteristics or "digital fingerprints" of electronic devices carried by the intruders. A system detects an alarm event at a monitored property based on output from at least one sensor located at the monitored property. In response to detecting the alarm event at the monitored property, the system initiates a process to gather electronic identifiers for mobi...