ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,949, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RapidSOS Inc. (New York).

"Enhanced emergency communications and transfers" was invented by Riccardo Pellegrini (New York), Jeremy Hitchcock (New York), Nicole Leonard (Longmong, Colo.), Nicholas Edward Horelik (New York), Jee Yoon Choi (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Lauren Javaly (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Brianna Guzman (Brooklyn, N.Y.), John Alan Pirrie (Lehi, Utah) and Andrew Lindstrom Gillespie (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for providing one or more of interagency communications, big text, area alert, and text or callback."

The patent ...