ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,219, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for configuring duplexing within a doorbell camera" was invented by Kunal Goradia (Andover, Mass.) and Philip Lentini (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes operating, by a device, a microphone incorporated in the device in a half-duplex mode; receiving, by the device, a message to initiate a session with another device, the message including a parameter; parsing, by the device, the message to identify a mode of operation of the microphone based on the parameter; and adjusting, by the device, the microphone to operate in a f...