ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,196, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Video recording based on object tracking" was invented by Denim Patel (Nashua, N.H.), Nicholas Setzer (Charlestown, Mass.), Shekhar Sastry (Arlington, Mass.) and Danielle Dean (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one disclosed method, a computing device may determine that a plurality of frames of image data represent an object of a first type and may further determine at least first and second parameters indicative of first and second positions of a bounding box of the object within first and second frames, respectively. The computing devic...