ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,008, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to RapidDeploy Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Prioritizing user devices in emergency situations" was invented by Steven Raucher (Austin, Texas) and Chad Alan Richey (Longview, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As part of an emergency response, a region in which communications may be affected by the emergency may be identified and used to prioritize communication by responders to the emergency. When an emergency is identified with a location, a priority communication region may be determined along with a set of identifiers corresponding to devices operated by emergency responders. Such responders may ty...