ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,729, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"User interface for security events" was invented by Nadeem Hussain (Worcester, Mass.), Jessica Pitocco (Arlington, Mass.), Alice Chiang (Arlington, Mass.) and Madeleine Fougere (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application may provide a user interface to (i) play back video within a first region of a screen and (ii) to display interactive elements corresponding to features detected in the video, the interactive elements being displayed in a second region of the screen. The application may determine that play back of the video has reached a first temporal posi...