ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,765, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).

"Item monitoring for doorbell cameras" was invented by Gang Qian (McLean, Va.), Allison Beach (Leesburg, Va.), Sima Taheri (McLean, Va.), Sravanthi Bondugula (Vienna, Va.), Sung Chun Lee (Tysons, Va.) and Narayanan Ramanathan (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems, including computer programs encoded on a storage medium, are described for implementing item monitoring using a doorbell camera. A system generates an input video stream that has image frames corresponding to detection of activity at a property. Timing information is gen...