ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,633, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DEVICE SOLUTIONS (Morrisville, N.C.).

"ATSC broadcast signal with encoded dispatch messages" was invented by Wilson Christopher Lamb (Hillsborough, N.C.), Anthony James Sammarco (Raleigh, N.C.), Mark T. Corl (Monroe Township, N.J.) and David Allen Catapano (Langhorne, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operations for a data normalization server include augmenting an emergency event notification from a regional emergency notification concentrator with situational awareness data for an emergency event characterized in the emergency event notification to provide an augmented emergency notificati...