ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,434, issued on March 4, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System for emergency safety warning and risk mitigation" was invented by Mladen Milosevic (Stoneham, Mass.) and Saman Parvaneh (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments relate to a system for activities of daily living ("ADL") and instrumental activities of daily living ("IADL") monitoring through electric current profile sensing, the system including an electric current profile sensing module configured to sense electricity usage and capture a current profile of a plurality of devices in a home using a plurality of cu...