ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,053, issued on Dec. 23.

"Personal safety and responder notification system and method" was invented by Avery Piantedosi (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that operates entirely automatically to determine that user may be in distress and unable to contact authorities, and is operable to identify the proper location PSAP that is in geographic proximity to the user; to notify a proper local PSAP of the user's location, the user's identity, the identification of the contact with whom the user expected to meet, the geographic location of the expected meeting place, the time at which the user failed to check i...