ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,004, issued on July 7, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Prioritizing records of events detected by a security system" was invented by Daniel Reid Sundell (Medford, Mass.) and Jordan Theodore Thayer (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a security system may generate a first record including first data about detection of a first person in a first image and a second record including second data about detection of a second person in a second image. The security system may determine, based at least in part on first and second data, priorities for the first and second records, and may determine, ba...