ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,386, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Detecting falls using a mobile device" was invented by Xing Tan (San Jose, Calif.), Huayu Ding (Santa Clara, Calif.), Parisa Dehleh Hossein Zadeh (San Jose, Calif.), Harshavardhan Mylapilli (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hung A. Pham (Oakland, Calif.), Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram (Mountain View, Calif.), Yann Jerome Julien Renard (San Carlos, Calif.), Sheena Sharma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexander Singh Alvarado (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Umamahesh Srinivas (Milpitas, Calif.), Xiaoyuan Tu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hengliang Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Geoffrey Louis Chi-Johnston (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Vivek Garg (Pleasanton, Cali...