ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,255, issued on April 29, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Sensor device-based detection of trauma events and responses" was invented by Amee Sheth (Brick, N.J.), Laura Nordyke (Kenmore, Wash.) and Jay Shah (Monroe, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system including at least one processor may obtain data associated with a user, the data associated with the user including at least one of: visual data captured via at least one camera associated with the user or audio data captured via at least one microphone associated with the user, detect at least one trauma event of at least one defined trauma...