ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,426, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Auto-programming door and camera relationships for a security system" was invented by Brian Richard (Lunenburg, Mass.) and David Monahan (Donaghadee, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically programming a security system including a plurality of access control readers and a plurality of image sensors includes receiving user credential information from a first access control reader. A first door associated with the first access control reader is further associated with a first image sensor. A user is i...