ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,363, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Reducing false alarms in security system" was invented by Ganesan Balamurugan (Bengaluru, India) and Deshpande Surekha (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security system includes a security system controller and a plurality of security sensors that are operably coupled with the security system controller. The security system includes a plurality of configuration settings that define when particular alarms are to be issued by the security system based at least in part on events that are detected by the security sensors. The securit...