ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,080, issued on May 13, was assigned to SimpliSafe,Inc. (Boston).
"Motion detection" was invented by Steven Nalen (Winthrop, Mass.), Michael Maichen II (Boston), Derek Thomas Witt (Somerville, Mass.) and James Eric Arenstam (Attleboro, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Motion detectors can include a housing defining a first cavity and an aperture extending through the housing. A circuit board can be disposed in the first cavity. An infrared sensor and a light sensor can be mounted on the circuit board. A lens can extend across the aperture. A wall can extend between the lens and the circuit board such that the wall, the lens, and t...