ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,818, issued on July 21, was assigned to Arlo Technologies Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Artificial intelligence based video optimization for monitoring system" was invented by Rajinder Singh (San Jose, Calif.), John Thomas (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Vince Smith (Langley, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic monitoring system and method for monitoring an environment are provided. The electronic monitoring system includes at least one monitoring device configured to monitor a zone within the environment and selectively capture video streams in response to corresponding triggering events. A controller, including an AI algorithm, ...