ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,411, issued on July 14, was assigned to SENNCO SOLUTIONS INC. (Plainfield, Ill.).

"Network detection-based monitoring of electronic merchandise" was invented by Brian Peacock (Melbourne, Fla.), Dale R. Liff (Montgomery, Ill.) and Raymond Devito (Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device configured for retail display includes an antenna, a memory in which security monitoring instructions are stored, and a processor configured to execute the security monitoring instructions to monitor a profile of wireless network communication devices detected via the antenna. The processor is further configured via the execu...