ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,578, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Interactive display for security monitoring system" was invented by Daniel Reid Sundell (Medford, Mass.) and Jordan Theodore Thayer (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method may involve causing a computing device to display on a screen first video received from a camera at a monitored location, and causing the computing device to display at least a first user interface element on the screen, together with the first video, the first user interface element indicative of a feature detected in second video received from the camera. In ...