ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,169, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Digital assistant for providing emergency assistance" was invented by Brad K. Herman (Culver City, Calif.) and Shiraz Akmal (Playa Vista, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This relates generally to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to provide real-time emergency assistance. An example method includes receiving a user input from a user of the electronic device, determining whether the user is in an emergency situation in response to the user input, and in response to determining that the user is in the emergency situation: enabling an...