ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,162, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Theatro Labs Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Integrating verbal collaboration platforms with data collection and user context" was invented by Christopher N. Todd (Dallas), Guy R. VanBuskirk (Greenville, S.C.), Ravi Shankar Kumar (Richardson, Texas), Kathryn Payne Torrence Shae (Dallas) and Jesse Alan Montgomery (Rowlett, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of managing emergency management information within an observation platform an emergency management and response application is provisioned at an observation platform. The provisioning is administered by a cloud services platform and...