ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,772, issued on July 28, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Identifying regions of interest in an imaging field of view" was invented by Jacquilene Jacob (Yonkers, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to computerized methods, systems and non-transitory computer-readable media for determining a plurality of regions of interest from an image of a scene for motion detection. The methods can include generating the regions of interest using image segmentation techniques and receiving user selection to designate one or more regions as motion detection zones. The methods can also automatically re...