ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,511, issued on Feb. 17.

"Personal awareness system and method for personal safety and digital content safety of a user" was invented by Jeffrey B. Mitchell (Carmel, Ind.) and Schyler W. Manning (Fortville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a personal awareness system that provides users physical health/wellness/welfare safety as well as online digital safety by blocking inappropriate digital content. The personal awareness system comprises a network protection appliance for use on a local area network (LAN), a software application that is used on a mobile computing device, a cloud-based remote data ...