US Patent Issued to The ADT Security on June 3 for "Premises monitoring using acoustic models of premises" (Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,261, issued on June 3, was assigned to The ADT Security Corp. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Premises monitoring using acoustic models of premises" was invented by Mark Reimer (Denver) and Shy Ward (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a control device for a premises security system that is configured to monitor a premises using a plurality of premises devices is provided. The control device is configured to obtain a plurality of acoustic samples for the premises, detect a sound anomaly in at least one of the plurality of acoustic samples, obtain a verification that the sound anomaly is expected, gen...