US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Dec. 16 for "Systems, methods and apparatus for interacting with a security system using a television remote control" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,098, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems, methods and apparatus for interacting with a security system using a television remote control" was invented by Michael Lamb (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Jeremy Black (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Thomas Thibault (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus is described for interacting with a security system using a television remote control. Commands sent by the remote control are received by an auxiliary interface device, which then provides the commands to a security system controller either directly, via a local-ar...