US Patent Issued to DISH Wireless on July 14 for "Wireless local area network emergency call location update" (District Of Columbia, Colorado, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,071, issued on July 14, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Wireless local area network emergency call location update" was invented by William Beckwith (Washington), Darci O'Hearn (Littleton, Colo.), Sougata Saha (Aurora, Colo.), Yohannes Tolossa (Gainesville, Va.), Mehdi Alasti (Arlington, Va.) and Raghavendhra Rao (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for handling a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) emergency call are provided herein. A VoIP emergency call can be made to a designated emergency phone number from a user equipment (UE). During the VoIP emergency call, location data...