ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,681, issued on July 28, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Systems and methods for performing video confirmation of sensor-generated alarms" was invented by Balamurugan Ganesan (Bengaluru, India), Benitta Hubert (Tamil Nadu, India) and Balaji Venkataraman (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for performing video confirmation of security system alarms using automated video analytics. When a sensor generates an alarm, the system automatically identifies an associated video camera and retrieves relevant video footage corresponding to the alarm timestamp. A video ...