US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Aug. 19 for "Record-based device location signaling for emergency calls" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,826, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Record-based device location signaling for emergency calls" was invented by Walter F. C. Anderson (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software platform includes emergency event processing functionality for detecting and mapping emergency event occurrences. The emergency event processing includes device location registration functionality for allowing operators of the software platform to register locations of their devices. Information associated with the operator-entered location information is stored alongside network device infor...