US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on March 17 for "Security camera system with multi-directional mount and method of operation" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,873, issued on March 17, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Security camera system with multi-directional mount and method of operation" was invented by Patrick Siu (Tyngsborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security camera system includes a base unit and sensor modules for generating image data. The base unit includes several mounting sockets arranged at different elevational and azimuthal directions around the base unit, and the sensor modules attach, for example, magnetically, to the mounting sockets. Each mounting socket includes a socket ID, which is read by a reader mod...