US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on June 17 for "Emergency alert systems and methods for differently abled persons" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,926, issued on June 17, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Emergency alert systems and methods for differently abled persons" was invented by Wei-Ming Lan (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Emergency alert systems and methods for disabled and/or differently abled persons are disclosed. Upon receiving an alert message, the system translates the alert message to an audio message (text to speech) when the text to speech feature is enabled. In some implementations, the system waits for a threshold period of time (e.g., 30 seconds) to receive a user acknowledgment of the alert message, and translates the a...