ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,363, issued on March 24, was assigned to Verkada Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for improved video information security against unauthorized access" was invented by Benjamin J. Bercovitz (San Mateo, Calif.) and Mason R. Swofford (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a compute device associated with (1) an organization and (2) a user account that is associated with the organization, a request for sensor data captured by a sensor. The method further includes sending, to the compute device, an encrypted private key generated by encrypting a private key ass...