ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,902, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Emergency assistance via a Wi-Fi mesh" was invented by Amber Bellerjeau (Littleton, Colo.), Caroline Elizabeth Condon (Denver) and Luke VanDuyn (Conifer, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process may include detecting an incident within a building, determining a first radius of a user device from a node by wirelessly coupling the user device and the node, determining the first radius based on a signal property of the coupling; determining a second radius of the user device from a second node by wireless coupling the user device and the second node and ...