ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,810, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Context aware fall detection using a mobile device" was invented by Sriram Venkateswaran (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Parisa Dehleh Hossein Zadeh (San Jose, Calif.), Vinay R. Majjigi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yann Jerome Julien Renard (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example method, a mobile device receives sensor data obtained by one or more sensor over a time period. The one or more sensors are worn by a user. Further, the mobile device determines a context of the user based on the sensor data, and obtains a set of rules for processing the se...