ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,712, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Peer-to-peer surveillance camera architecture using shared metadata datastore" was invented by Nischith T N (Bangalore, India) and Surya Sathyanandam (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, video cameras, and methods for a peer-to-peer surveillance camera architecture using a shared metadata datastore are described. Each video camera may be configured to detect objects of interest in the video data captured by their respective image sensors and selectively upload metadata from object detection events to the shared metadata datasto...