ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,574, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Vivint Inc. (Provo, Utah).

"Management of a smart home automation community" was invented by Harrison Taylor Jenkins (Salt Lake City) and Jeffrey Evans (Provo, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for property manager are described. A device may transmit a request to access information from a control panel of a property associated with a smart home automation community. The request may include credentials specific to a property management personnel. In response to the transmitted request, the device may retrieve the information from the control panel of the property...