US Patent Issued to RapidSOS on July 1 for "Systems and methods for emergency communications amongst groups of devices based on shared data" (New York, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,035, issued on July 1, was assigned to RapidSOS Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for emergency communications amongst groups of devices based on shared data" was invented by Anil Mehta (Makanda, Ill.), Michael John Martin (Long Island City, N.Y.), Nicholas Edward Horelik (Long Island City, N.Y.) and Reinhard Ekl (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for managing emergency communications providing data sharing amongst groups of devices, proxy calling by one communication device on behalf of another, and seamless data extraction from a communication device by first respon...