ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,879, issued on June 17, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Door lock remote calibration" was invented by Harsha Kudoor (Arlington, Mass.), Kensly Plimouth (Boston), Ali Tawbeh (Franklin, Mass.) and David Atkins (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may be used for remotely calibrating a door lock. The system includes an application executable on a user device, a remote computing environment in communication with the user device, and a base station in communication with the remote computing environment and the door lock. The application allows a user to initiate calibration of the door lock in res...