ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,723, issued on June 30.

"System for configuring remittances for user-sourced crime information" was invented by Arthur Oliver Tucker IV (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Christopher Delton Karlen (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server computing device configured to receive, via an anonymization network and from a first mobile computing device that determines a location from a set of locations of the first mobile computing device is within a threshold distance of an event, a proximity indication that a first user associated with the first mobile computing device is proximate to the event; in response to receiving an indica...