ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,977, issued on April 14, was assigned to Resolution Products LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Mobile device as a security system component" was invented by Paul G. Saldin (Stillwater, Minn.), David J. Mayne (Eagan, Minn.) and Brian K. Seemann (Lakeville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method for using a mobile computing device as a security system component includes receiving, from a mobile device and by a security system gateway, mobile device sensor information associated with sensor data captured by the mobile device at a premises monitored by the security system gateway; identifying, based on the received s...