US Patent Issued to Google on July 1 for "Interacting with visitors of a connected home environment" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,201, issued on July 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Interacting with visitors of a connected home environment" was invented by William Alexander Finlayson (San Francisco), Liana Kong (Redwood City, Calif.), John Jordan Nold (Longmont, Colo.), Sahana Mysore (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Ruiyi Song (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes techniques for interacting with visitors at a visitor interaction system. A method includes obtaining video data captured by the visitor interaction system, identifying an approach of a person, and analyzing the video data to determine an identity of...