ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,839, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ultratec Inc. (Madison, Wis.).
"911 call assistance for assisted device user" was invented by Robert M. Engelke (Madison, Wis.), Kevin R. Colwell (Middleton, Wis.) and Troy D. Vitek (Waunakee, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assisted user's (AU's) captioning device for assisting an AU during a call with a hearing user (HU) wherein the hearing user uses a HU's communication device, the captioning device comprising a display screen and a processor linked to the display screen, the processor programmed to perform the steps of upon receiving a call, automatically determining if the call is fro...