ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,113, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Emergency report processing for communication cell covered by different emergency agencies" was invented by Kenichiro Aoyagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency report processing apparatus includes: an emergency report detection unit that detects emergency report from a communicator in a communication cell including jurisdictional areas of different emergency agencies; a location information acquisition unit that acquires location information suggesting the location of the communicator in the communication cell; a location estimation unit that estima...