ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,163, issued on May 27, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Providing additional information for emergency alerts via wireless networks" was invented by Terri Leigh Brooks (Prosper, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing targeted alerts by a telecommunications system includes receiving, by a server subsystem, an alert message from an alert originator system. The alert message indicates an emergency associated with an area. The method includes passing the alert message to multiple mobile devices. The method also includes receiving a request message at a lookup subsystem of the telecommunications s...