ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,256, issued on June 24, was assigned to ATOS Public Safety LLC (Irving, Texas).

"Method and system for asynchronous reporting of emergency incidents" was invented by Ioannis Kolaxis (Athens, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and corresponding system that can allow an eyewitness of an emergency incident to instantly report it to the emergency services by sending data such as a photo of the emergency scene, without having to wait for a call-taker or agent to answer a call. This data is processed by an emergency service platform, which automatically dispatches the required resources to the emergency sce...