ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,116, issued on March 24, was assigned to RESIDEO LLC (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"System and method for location monitoring and event-based sentinel management" was invented by Christopher Heintzelman (Plymouth, Minn.), Soumitri Kolavennu (Blaine, Minn.), Warren Young (Arden Hills, Minn.), Joseph Bodkin (South Burlington, Vt.) and John Cronin (Jericho, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building monitoring system includes a first sensor configured to detect a first condition in the space, a second sensor configured to detect a second condition in the space, and a robotic sentinel. The robotic sentinel includes a memory for storing one...