ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,729, issued on June 16, was assigned to Arlo Technologies Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Electronic monitoring system including low energy button with crowd sourced alarm and dispatch service" was invented by Rajinder Singh (San Jose, Calif.) and Timothy Johnston (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an electronic monitoring system are provided. The electronic monitoring system includes a button having an actuatable actuator and an identity. The button is configured to encrypt a data packet corresponding to the identity of the button and broadcast the encrypted data packet over a wireless Personal Area Network (PA...