ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,855, issued on Nov. 18.

"Personal alarm apparatus, system, and method" was invented by Avinash Raghu Nanisetty (Arlington Heights, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal alarm system including a sound-detecting transmitter and a pressure-detecting receiver capable of generating a local stimulus generated by the receiver and at the receiver's location once a signal indicative of a detected sound is transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver while the receiver is detecting whether or not pressure is present."

The patent was filed on Feb. 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/114,010.

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