ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,947, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Security alert generation using sensor data" was invented by Jin Fang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hainan Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Qing Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device receives streaming data from one or more security sensors at a geographic location, the one or more security sensors comprising at least one of a camera, a microphone, or a thermal sensor. The computing device determines, by an artificial intelligence engine, an event occurring at the geographic location based on the streaming data based on receivi...