US Patent Issued to Alarm.com on Oct. 7 for "Point-to-point visual communications in a security monitoring system" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,007, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Point-to-point visual communications in a security monitoring system" was invented by Lang Lin (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system includes a doorbell unit that includes a camera and a display and that is configured to receive a request to access the property. The monitoring system includes a monitor control unit that is configured to determine an authentication protocol for determining whether to grant the visitor access to the property. The monitor control unit generates a first image and transmits authentication data to a computing de...