ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,776, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hippi LLC (Clermont, Fla.).

"Portable alarm system with on demand reporting to monitoring station" was invented by Brian K. Hess (Clermont, Fla.) and Frank B. Clark (Longview, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable alarm system is disclosed, which includes a base unit that is selectively programable to report select trigger events to a monitoring station according to a programmed rule. An app on a mobile electric device is configured to permit a user to override a programmed rule to cause a trigger event to be reported to the monitoring station in real time, where in the absence of suc...