ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,932, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).
"Targeted visitor notifications" was invented by Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.) and Ethan Shayne (Clifton Park, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing targeted notifications. One of the methods includes determining a likely identity of a visitor who arrived at a property that is associated with two or more people, selecting, from the two or more people, a target person using the likely identity of the visitor, and sending, to a device of the target...