ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,261, issued on July 15, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"In-band video communication" was invented by Paul Fee (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video management within a CCTV system includes receiving, at a computing device via one or more intermediate devices in the CCTV system, a video stream generated by a sensor device of the CCTV system. The video stream includes a plurality of video frames. The computing device sends, via the one or more intermediate devices of the CCTV system, an instruction to a sensor device configured to generate a video str...