ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,343, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Consolidated alarm screen" was invented by Bojan Rajkovic (Salem, Mass.) and Gregory Eusden (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a computing device, first data from a sensor, the first data including a first timestamp and an event that triggered an alarm; receiving, by the computing device, second data from a remote computing environment, the second data including a second timestamp different from the first time stamp and specifying an action taken in response to the alarm; and rendering a screen on a display of a computing ...