ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,048, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Multi-protocol network connection restoration" was invented by Gustaf Nicolaus Maxwell Lonaeus (Washington), Kyle Rankin Johnson (Falls Church, Va.) and Adam Elliot Feinstein (Washington).

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 or regaining connectivity between devices. One of the methods includes: determining, using network radio data from a network radio for a device that was connected to another device using the network radio, that the device is disconnected from the other...