US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on July 29 for "Facial recognition by a security / automation system control panel" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,540, issued on July 29, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Facial recognition by a security / automation system control panel" was invented by Ross Werner (San Francisco), Anand Sastry (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Padmabushan Reddy Patlola (Hyderabad, India), Bala Kishore Garre (Hyderabad, India) and Amarnath Vundhyala (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium comprising determining, by a processor of a control panel, that a security event has happened, wherein the security event is associated with a user ide...