ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,583, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"System and method for notifying a guardian when an expected gesture from a monitored user is not received" was invented by Pawel Niemiec (Cracow, Poland), Pawel Wrobel (Gorenice, Poland), Marcin Starzak (Skawina, Poland) and Oliwia Strzelec (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for notifying a guardian when an expected gesture from a monitored user is not received are provided. A start point and a destination point are received from the monitored user. A route from the start point to the destination point that includes a gesture monitoring...