US Patent Issued to The ADT Security on July 21 for "Automatically assigning zone numbers in a security system" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,869, issued on July 21, was assigned to The ADT Security Corp. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Automatically assigning zone numbers in a security system" was invented by Steven Else (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) and Jatin Patel (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are described. In at least one embodiment, a premises security system includes processing circuitry configured to: detect a change to a quantity of a plurality of premises devices located at the premises where the change includes one of an addition or a removal of a first premises device of the plurality of premises devices, and in response to detecting t...