ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,591, issued on July 8, was assigned to The ADT Security Corp. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Voice activated premises device enrollment in a security system" was invented by Steven Else (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) and Jatin Patel (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device in a premises security system is provided. The control device receives a voice command or a touch-based input to initiate an enrollment of a premises device in a premises security system and synthesizes a plurality of audio clips for playback on a speaker. Each audio clip requests respective premises device information. In response to playback of the audio c...