ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,688, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Verkada Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Establishing, documenting, and disclosing information pertinent to privacy in surveilled environments" was invented by Karl Erik Gustav Rehnby (San Francisco), Julia Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Arjun Krishnaiah (San Francisco) and Matthew Timothy Bornski (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here is a surveillance system that is able to employ an approach to sharing security information, such that organizations have the ability to voluntarily share relevant security information with the individuals who frequent the corresponding buildings. The...