ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,342, issued on July 29, was assigned to SecureNet Solutions Group LLC (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Correlation engine for correlating sensory events" was invented by John J Donovan (Hamilton, Mass.) and Daniar Hussain (San Juan, Puerto Rico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monitoring systems and methods for use in security, safety, and business process applications utilizing a correlation engine are disclosed. Sensory data from one or more sensors are captured and analyzed to detect one or more events in the sensory data. The events are correlated by a correlation engine, optionally by weighing the events based on attributes of the sensors th...