ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,807, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Security / automation system control panel graphical user interface" was invented by Anand Sastry (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Karthik Challa (San Jose, Calif.), Padmabushan Reddy Patlola (Telangana, India) and Bala Kishore Garre (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium comprising capturing visual or audio data using at least one camera or microphone in a control panel; performing, by a processor of the control panel, at least one of a voice r...