ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,358, issued on May 27, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).
"Panic button intervention" was invented by Alicia C. Jones-McFadden (Fort Mill, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for registering a panic button for intervention are described herein. A system is configured to receive at a server, an indication that a panic button was used by a user; access a database to determine a responsive action, the responsive action being one of: transmitting a speaking prompt or activating a device function of a device associated with the user; and establish a communication session with the user to per...