ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,456, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for providing security system information using augmented reality effects" was invented by Saravanabavanandam Sadaksharam (Tamil Nadu, India), Kannan Meiappan (Redmond, Wash.), Shiv Kumar Nadikuda (Clarksville, Tenn.), Shashank Velagala (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Sriram Krishnan (Mckinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for providing security system information using an augmented reality (AR) effect, comprising receiving se...