ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,293, issued on Jan. 28.
"Fall alerting assembly" was invented by Joey Damaske (Hixton, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fall alerting assembly for contacting emergency responders when a user falls from an elevated location includes a personal electronic device that is in wireless communication with an extrinsic communication network. A body harness is wearable on a body of a user, an attachment is movably coupled to the body harness and the attachment is attachable to a safety line. A cord is coupled to the attachment, a fall unit is integrated into the body harness and the cord is removably coupled to the fall unit. The cord br...