ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,066, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Monitoring systems and methods for personal safety" was invented by Florian Braun (San Antonio), Andre Rene Buentello (San Antonio), Jess W. Gingrich (San Antonio), Timothy Altman (Bulverde, Texas) and Terry Benton (Celina, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for monitoring a condition of a person includes receiving, at a computerized device, at least one signal from a condition sensor and determining if a condition is an emergency condition of a user based on the at least one signal."

The patent was fil...