US Patent Issued to Vivint on July 1 for "Artificial intelligence deterrence techniques for security and automation systems" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,437, issued on July 1, was assigned to Vivint LLC (Provo, Utah).

"Artificial intelligence deterrence techniques for security and automation systems" was invented by Brandon Bunker (Highland, Utah) and Rongbin Lanny Lin (Draper, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for deterrence techniques using a security and automation system are described. In one method, the system may receive a set of inputs from one or more sensors of the security and automation system. The system may determine one or more characteristics of a person proximate the security and automation system based at least in part on the received s...