ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,929, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Security event characterization and response" was invented by John J. Clark (Boynton Beach, Fla.) and Adam S. Bergman (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security event characterization and response includes, for each of a plurality of first security data collection events determining that the first event has started. Collecting, in a database, an event data record associated with the first event determined to have started, the event data record comprising gait information of a person associated with the first event. For a given secu...