ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,684, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for averting crime with look-ahead analytics" was invented by Melwyn F. Sequeira (Plantation, Fla.) and Hubert A. Patterson (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a security system. The methods comprise: monitoring an area for a presence of an individual or vehicle using wireless signals of a first type that are received by a first radio of the security system; operating the first radio as a wireless sensor for generating sensor data; determining whether the individual or vehicle i...