ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,269, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RapidSOS Inc. (New York).

"Facilitating a response to an emergency using an emergency response device" was invented by Jordi Cabanas (Brooklyn, N.Y.), John Michael DiDonato (Wexford, Pa.), Lucas Richard Eager Leavitt (Forest Hills, N.Y.), James Patrick Olejar (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Ethan Reid Roberts (Woodside, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, devices, media, and methods for facilitating and/or managing emergency response. An emergency response data platform (ERDP) may receive emergency information that indicates a type of an emergency and a location associat...