ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,764, issued on July 21, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Security systems and methods for structures with moveable components" was invented by John Degraffenreid Dial IV (Austin, Texas) and Lewis Clay Dearman (Taylor, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for securing structures with moveable components. A structure may comprise a plurality of panes. A sensor device may be disposed on a pane of the structure. The sensor device may determine a position of the pane. A computing device in communication with the sensor device may receive, from the sensor device, an indicat...