US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Dec. 2 for "Methods for monitoring security" (Pennsylvania, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,667, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods for monitoring security" was invented by Bill Horrocks (Media, Pa.), Doug Bassett (Fort Myers, Fla.), John Dougherty (Wynnewood, Pa.), Pritesh Patel (Hatfield, Pa.) and Jim Poder (Cheltenham, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are disclosed that, in some aspects, provide detecting an alarm event, determining whether the alarm event is a deviation from predefined criteria, and transmitting an alert notification to users of the security system if the alarm event is a deviation from the predefined criteria. The predefined criteria may...