ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,888, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ATOS PUBLIC SAFETY LLC (Irving, Texas).

"Computer-implemented method of handling an emergency incident, communication network, and emergency processing unit" was invented by Nikolaos Drys (Athens, Greece), Aristeidis Giachalis (Athens, Greece), Konstantinos Katsimingos (Athens, Greece), Dimitrios Talasoglou (Nea Makri, Greece), Aikaterini Skouta (Argyroupoli, Greece) and Anastasios Talampekos (Athens, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of handling an emergency incident can include receiving information on an emergency incident that includes at least one image of...