ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,036, issued on July 1, was assigned to Thingz Inc. (Galena, Ill.).

"Providing status of user devices during a biological threat event" was invented by Gary W. Grube (Barrington Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying a first user device associated with local status information indicating a need for medical attention and establishing a biological threat event for the first user device. The method further includes establishing event timeline information of the biological threat event to include time information of historical geographic location coordinate information of the first user device. The method ...