ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,273, issued on June 3, was assigned to GEO-COMM INC. (St. Cloud, Minn.) and RAPIDS INC. (New York).

"Data converter for emergency service network" was invented by Darell Stoick (Becker, Minn.), Karl Larsen (Waite Park, Minn.), John Lambaere (Sauk Rapids, Minn.) and John Katt (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method includes establishing a secure authenticated network connection between an apparatus located at an emergency communication center (ECC) location and operatively coupled to an ECC functional entity, and an application programming interface (API) endpoint in the cloud; performing an authentication procedure...