US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 21 for "Biometric-based distress detection and delivery of assistance" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,837, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Biometric-based distress detection and delivery of assistance" was invented by Stacy F. Hobson (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Cedric D. Cook (Richmond, Texas), Osakpamwan Osaigbovo (Argyle, Texas) and Myneeka Holloway (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system provides biometric-based distress detection and assistance. Biometric information that is associated with an entity and audio data associated with an environment of the entity are received. A distress score is calculated based on the biometric information. The audio data i...