ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,732, issued on July 14, was assigned to The ADT Security Corp. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Method and apparatus for identifying and relaying audio segments of interest in a monitored security environment" was invented by Bhaskar Thadisetty (Boca Raton, Fla.), Isabel Fernandez (Lauderdale by the Sea, Fla.) and Steven Alfonse Zaccardi (Coral Springs, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, an audio analysis device is provided. The audio analysis device is configured to receive administrator criteria that specifies an alarm event handling response, obtain an audio file associated with a moni...