ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,757, issued on July 22, was assigned to Inovonics Wireless Corp. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Devices, systems and methods for fall detection and preventing false alarms" was invented by Christopher L. Platt (Erie, Colo.), Sumit Sur (Broomfield, Colo.), Jess E. Cobb (Lafayette, Colo.), Rashid S. Al-Hamoodah (Longmont, Colo.), Lalit S. Pandit (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Todd A. Stanley (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a fall detection pendant configured to be worn by a user. The fall detection pendant includes an accelerometer configured to measure acceleration, a pressure sensor configured to measure bar...