ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,189, issued on April 1, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Methods and systems for post-disaster contact in smart city based on the internet of things" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Yong Li (Chengdu, China), Yongzeng Liang (Chengdu, China), Xiaojun Wei (Chengdu, China) and Zhihui Wen (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for post-disaster contact in a smart city based on Internet of Things, which is applied to a management platform. The method comprises: in response to the occurrence of a disaster event, obtaini...