ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,307, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ICN ACQUISITION LLC (Tysons, Va.).

"System, method and apparatus for remote monitoring" was invented by Russell Ure (Ottawa), Reza Kazemi (Ottawa), Christian Molson (Ottawa) and Heather McIntosh (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring unit for security and automation in a premises are described. The monitoring unit uses remote configuration and control to enable monitoring of a premises. The monitoring unit provides multiple monitoring functions to respond to events within the space and alert a user at a remote device like a smartphone. An image sensor provides a wide field of view wh...