ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,789, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Detecting falls using a mobile device" was invented by Hung A. Pham (Oakland, Calif.), Stephen P. Jackson (San Francisco), Vinay R. Majigi (Mountain View, Calif.), Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram (Mountain View, Calif.), Adeeti V. Ullal (Mountain View, Calif.), Yann Jerome Julien Renard (San Carlos, Calif.) and Telford Earl Forgety III (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example method, a mobile device obtains sample data generated by one or more sensors over a period of time, where the one or more sensors are worn by a user. The mobile device determ...