ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,542, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Voice command with emergency response" was invented by Rohit Sawkar (Charlotte, N.C.) and Pratap Dande (St. Johns, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method triggers a user-definable emergency response in a voice-command based authentication system. The method receives gestures on a mobile device, and provides an interface at the mobile device to trigger an automatic interaction with an artificial intelligence ("AI") engine stored on the mobile device. The AI accesses a database for storing legacy information associated with the caller and runs an ...