ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,312, issued on July 21, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Automated property humidity control" was invented by Jackson Alexander Klein (Herndon, Va.) and Robert Nathan Picardi (Greenville, S.C.).

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 adjusting an indoor humidity at a property. One of the methods includes determining an estimated outdoor temperature in an area around a property; determining, using the estimated outdoor temperature, a target indoor humidity for the property; accessing data about the property; predicting, using the da...