ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,557, issued on June 3, was assigned to RapidSOS Inc. (New York).

"Apparatus and method for emergency dispatch" was invented by Michael John Martin (Long Island, N.Y.), Nicholas Edward Horelik (Long Island City, N.Y.) and Riccardo Pellegrini (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method includes receiving data inputs for a plurality of events including alarms, sensors, and mobile device emergency call and emergency alert related emergency data; determining event correlations based on the data inputs to generate a set of correlated events; determining emergency network dispatch rules for each correlated event based on even...