ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,209, issued on May 13.

"System and method to provide emergency alerts" was invented by Maximus Brown (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency detection and alert system includes an emergency server configured to provide an alert to each person on an alert feed list when an emergency event is detected. In addition, the system includes a client device to communicate with the emergency server, and a microphone for detecting audible signals. In addition, the system includes an emergency validator comprising a warning database and a processor. The processor in configured to receive at least one audible signal from the c...