ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,908, issued on April 1.

"System and method for emergency dispatch" was invented by Jeffrey J. Clawson (Millcreek, Utah) and Ronald McDaniel (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer device generates a response to an emergency being reported by a plurality of sensor devices. The memory contains a sensor data engine and a determinant code calculator. The computer device determines the likelihood of an emergency based on received sensor data and, in some embodiments, answers received from an information provider. The sensor data engine receives external sensor data, determines data values associated with the external sen...