ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,054, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"System and method to support human-machine interactions for public safety annotations" was invented by Francesca Schuler (Palatine, Ill.), Christine K Rapala (West Dundee, Ill.), Trent J Miller (West Chicago, Ill.) and Larry D Freeman (Valparaiso, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to support human-machine interactions for public safety annotations are provided. Live streamed media that includes at least one of audio and video is received. The live streamed media is replicated. The replicated live streamed media is sent to at least two of an artif...