ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,318, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Eagle Eye Networks Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Methods for sharing private video streams with first responders under facility administrator control" was invented by Dean Drako (Austin, Texas), Steven Roskowski (Austin, Texas) and Timothy Duncan (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method enables video surveillance service subscribers to share image streams with individual first responder agencies in the event of emergency. A customer administrator selects permissions on each camera via privileged web-browser or mobile device. Permissions enable selection by static meta data such as ...