ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,742, issued on May 5, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).
"Periodic water leak detection" was invented by Grant Rudd (Braintree, Mass.), Robert Nathan Picardi (Herndon, Va.), Daniel Marc Goodman (Needham, Mass.), Craig Carl Heffernan (Oregon City, Ore.), Harrison Wayne Donahue (Attleboro, Mass.), Liam Shea Daly (Needham, Mass.) and Marc Anthony Epard (Lawrence, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for periodic water leak detection are disclosed. A method includes obtaining, using a water meter, water meter data representing the occurrence of water usage events at a property; determining, based o...