US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Jan. 27 for "Satellite emergency communication abuse detection and prevention" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,113, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Satellite emergency communication abuse detection and prevention" was invented by Joseph Soryal (Glendale, N.Y.) and Howard Lang (Wayside, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a processing system including a processor via a satellite, an emergency communication that was transmitted from an end user device to the satellite; and determining, by the processing system, a legitimacy of the emergency communication according to an analysis based on various information such as a diligenc...