ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,137, issued on April 7, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Connectivity candidate filtering" was invented by Bojan Rajkovic (Salem, Mass.) and Chin Siong Ong (Dorchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one disclosed method, a first application may receive a first connectivity candidate from a second application, the first connectivity candidate identifying at least a first internet protocol (IP) address that a remote application can potentially use to send data over a network to the second application for use by the first application. The first application may determine that the first connectivity can...