ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,305, issued on July 8, was assigned to Shenzhen Fulian Fugui Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Reliable and automatic on-board unit for vehicles in distress, movable device, and method of controlling same" was invented by Feng-Yuan Li (Nanning, China), Zhi-Cheng Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Xiao-Min Liang (Nanning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fail-safe on-board unit, a movable device, and a control method for a vehicle which will automatically and reliably broadcast a distress signal to a rescue center in the event of accident includes in the on-board unit a first subscriber identity module (SIM), a second SIM, a ...