US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 16 for "Automatic presence simulator for security systems" (Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,687, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Automatic presence simulator for security systems" was invented by Amit Garg (Delran, N.J.) and Richard Woundy (North Reading, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and computing devices are described herein for monitoring a premises when residents or other users are present in order to detect patterns of activity at the premises. Such patterns may comprise, for example, a typical schedule indicating usage of one or more devices by one or more users of the premises. When a user is away or otherwise inactive, commands may be sen...