ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,463, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TYCO Fire & Security GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Security system using tiered analysis" was invented by Jason Breed (Concord, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a security system, the method including: receiving an indication of an object in a premises; determining, responsive to receiving the indication, to assign an identity to the object based on the indication; tracking movement of the object on the premises; determining, based on the movement, whether to maintain the identity assigned to the object; and in response to determining not to maintain t...