ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,237, issued on June 23, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Event-based wireless emergency alerts" was invented by Charles Peter Musgrove (Henderson, Nev.) and Brian Daly (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to event-based wireless emergency alerts ("WEAs"). According to one aspect disclosed herein, a WEA-capable device can receive an event-based wireless emergency alert that includes an event code and alert content. The WEA-capable device can parse the event code from the event-based WEA. The WEA-capable device can determine, via execution of an event...