ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,319, issued on March 3, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Aberration engine" was invented by David James Hutz (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aberration engine that collects data sensed by a monitoring system that monitors a property of a user and aggregates the collected data over a period of a time. The aberration engine detects, within the aggregated data, patterns of recurring events and, based on detecting the patterns of recurring events within the aggregated data, takes action related to the monitoring system based on the detected patterns of recurring events within the aggregated data."

The paten...