ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,045, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Unattended smart property showing" was invented by Michael Montgomery Brophy (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rental property management technology, in which reservation data is accessed on a rental property management server, and a request from a mobile device for an upcoming reservation at a property is detected. In response to detecting the request, the rental property management server confirms the upcoming reservation based on the accessed reservation data. In response to confirming the upcoming reservation, the reservation management server gen...