ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,949, issued on May 13, was assigned to WYZE LABS INC. (Kirkland, Wash.).
"Lamp socket assembly for powering an image capture device of a security system" was invented by Chao Zhang (Kenmore, Wash.), Steve Skeoch (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.), Lin Chen (Seattle) and Zhongwei Cheng (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lamp socket assembly to be installed in a light socket and receive electrical power therefrom. The lamp socket assembly to provide electrical power to a surveillance device that detects an occurrence of a security event and notifies the lamp socket assembly of the occurrence. In response to the notification, ...