ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,262, issued on June 3, was assigned to SKYBELL TECHNOLOGIES IP LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Doorbell communities" was invented by Joseph Frank Scalisi (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Desiree Mejia (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Gregory Saul Harrison (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Andrew Paul Thomas (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Doorbells can send data to each other to enable a first doorbell user to warn a second doorbell user regarding a suspicious visitor. A first user can indicate a first trait of a visitor via a first remote computing device. The first user can create a user group to enable the members of the user group to use their doorbells...