ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,981, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).
"Systems and methods of profile sharing" was invented by Dan Sundell (Medford, Mass.) and Jordan Thayer (Hopkinton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, from a computing device, input specifying a profile of a subject authorized to access a location; receiving, from an image capture device of a system, an image acquired at the location, the image depicting the subject; and refraining from initiating an alarm signal in response to detection of the subject by the system based on the image and the profile."
The patent was filed on Oct. 25, 20...