US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Actuating plumbing systems based on surveillance data" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,693, issued on July 21.

"Actuating plumbing systems based on surveillance data" was invented by Barrett Morgan (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communications between an onsite surveillance system and a plumbing system for actuating one or more components of the plumbing system based on data sensed by the onsite surveillance system. A method includes receiving an image frame from a surveillance camera and identifying an object of interest within the image frame. The method includes instructing a plumbing controller to actuate one or more components of a plumbing system in response to determining that the object of inter...