ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,234, issued on April 22, was assigned to GENETEC INC. (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

"Methods and systems for routing media" was invented by Frederic Rioux (Montreal, Canada) and Francis Lachance (Blainville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for routing media in a surveillance system comprises, at a gateway device placed on a local network deployed at a location being surveilled and having network connectivity to a cloud computing device, detecting networked device(s) placed on the local network, the networked device(s) comprising media device(s) each configured to generate media stream data as the location is being surveilled...