ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,351, issued on May 27, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Smart surveillance through dynamic threat-level indexing" was invented by Pradeep Kumar Shanmugavelu (Madurai, India), Vivek Ramachandran (Bangalore, India), Sivakumar Mahadevan (TamilNadu, India) and Srinivas C (TamilNadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Static data that represents one or more static contributing factors to a dynamic threat-level index is received for a corresponding local region and live data that represents one or more dynamic contributing factors to the dynamic threat-level index for the corresponding local region is repe...