ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,659, issued on Sept. 9.
"System and method for monitoring activities through portable devices" was invented by Josh Swank (Peoria, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and system are provided for notifying a user contact of the status of a user of a portable device. The status is determined by the portable device collecting user provided information and device collected information relevant to a user of portable device. The portable device may then transmit the device collected information and the user provided information to a server that in turn performs an analysis on the device collected information and the user provided...