ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,378, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Techniques for remote disarm of security system" was invented by Zachary William Rose (Natick, Mass.) and Bojan Rajkovic (Salem, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security systems and methods. In one example, a method includes receiving, by a computing device, a plurality of milestones indicating events in a security system while the security system is in an alarm state at a location remote from the computing device, the plurality of milestones including first and second milestones indicative of (i) validity of authentication information, and (ii) a request for the...