US Patent Issued to Apple on July 29 for "Emergency information access on portable electronic devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,522, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Emergency information access on portable electronic devices" was invented by Steven Charles Michalske (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved techniques for facilitating emergency access to one or more contacts stored on a portable electronic device are disclosed. One or more contacts on the portable electronic device are designated as emergency contacts. While the portable electronic device is password-locked, a request to display the one or more emergency contacts on the password-locked portable electronic device is received. Without requiri...