ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,496, issued on March 11, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Communication sessions with autonomous security device preparation" was invented by Zachary William Rose (Natick, Mass.), Bojan Rajkovic (Salem, Mass.) and Justin Forrest (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a first device, a request from a second device to participate in a session, the request being a message compliant with a webRTC framework and including an identifier of a process hosted by the second device; verifying, by the first device, a type of the process hosted by the second device based on the identifier; initiating, by ...