US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on July 28 for "Security / automation system control panel with active microphones" (California, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,774, issued on July 28, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Security / automation system control panel with active microphones" was invented by Ross Werner (San Francisco), David Pulling (San Jose, Calif.), Anand Sastry (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and David Laone (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium comprising monitoring, by a control panel, an ambient noise via one or more microphones in the control panel. The implementations further include determining, by the control panel, whether the ambient noise is...