ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,818, issued on July 15, was assigned to Neo Wireless LLC (Wayne, Pa.).
"Methods and apparatus for contingency communications" was invented by Titus Lo (Bellevue, Wash.) and Xiaodong Li (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for contingency communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for providing emergency services may be performed by a base station operating in a communication system in an embodiment, the method for providing emergency services includes transmitting a beacon signal to indicate an emergency status to enable portable devices to operate in a stress mode. A distress signal may b...