US Patent Issued to Alarm.com on May 12 for "Tripwire-based geolocation system" (Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,120, issued on May 12, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Tripwire-based geolocation system" was invented by John Murdock (Arlington, Va.), Jasper Bingham (Washington), Allen Chien (Fairfax, Va.) and Stephen Scott Trundle (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a non-transitory computer storage medium, for receiving user-defined routes, each user-defined route including a tripwire of multiple tripwires and a direction, where each user-defined route includes an action of multiple actions executed by a sub-system of a home monitoring system, de...