ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,916, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for camera configuration" was invented by Peter Lawrence (Lisburn, Great Britain), Benjamin Campbell Anderson (Belfast, Great Britain) and Terence Neill (Lisburn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for configuring a camera, comprising generating, for display on a computing device, a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring a camera, wherein the camera is programmed to visually receive and execute configuration info...