ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,986, issued on May 13, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Tamper reduction for quick deploy camera system" was invented by Danny Kam (Vancouver, Canada), Patrick D. Koskan (Jupiter, Fla.) and Pietro Russo (Melrose, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for tamper reduction for camera systems. One example system includes a camera with a first field of view configured to operate in a low-power mode and an active mode, an energy wave sensor with a second field of view, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to monitor, via the energy wave sensor, for an object within the s...