ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,330, issued on April 7, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Ear bud integration with property monitoring" was invented by Kameron Kincade (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for earbud integration with property monitoring. In some implementations, data indicating sleep buds are in use by a user is received. Sensor data indicating an event at the property where the user is located is received. Alert preferences are obtained. A sleep bud alert is generated for the user based on the alert preferences, the event, ...