ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,257, issued on March 17, was assigned to Universal City Studios LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Security appliance extension" was invented by Luis Alves (Clermont, Fla.), Sean Fitzpatrick (Winter Garden, Fla.) and Steven King (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed that receive and characterize security event data. Based upon a customized severity characterized security event data, presentation and/or control actions, such as prioritized presentation and alarm generation are performed."

The patent was filed on June 12, 2019, under Application No. 16/439,421.

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