ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,198, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Incident surveillance using unmanned mobile machines" was invented by Jason M. Ouellette (Leominster, Mass.) and Gopal Paripally (North Andover, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for operating an unmanned mobile machine (UMM) to surveil potential incidents, including receiving an indication of a potential incident within an area associated with a building, transmitting a command to the UMM to travel to a location associated with the potential incident, and receiving, from the UMM lo...