ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,354, issued on May 27, was assigned to Epic Safety Inc. (North Vancouver, Canada).

"Method and apparatus for detecting fall events" was invented by Mohammad Zamanpour (North Vancouver, Canada), Salman Hassanpour Zahraei (Tehran, Iran), Mohammad Soltanian (Karaj, Iran) and Majid Shokoufi (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method and apparatus for detecting a fall event of the user. The method includes collecting data associated with activities of the user from sensors and distributing the collected data to data sub-windows using signal windowing and segmentation, the data sub-windows indicative of a ...