US Patent Issued to DISH Wireless on Dec. 2 for "Location tracking following emergency call handoffs" (Virginia, Colorado, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,058, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Location tracking following emergency call handoffs" was invented by Mehdi Alasti (Reston, Va.), Kate Megan Carney Landow (Denver) and William Charles Beckwith (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE may receive input indicating an attempt to place an emergency call. The UE may communicate with a first cellular network to connect the emergency call. The UE may generate a first SIP header, the SIP header including first location data indicating a first location of the UE. The UE may transmit the SIP header including the first location data via a user ...