ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,735, issued on July 21, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Facilitating response to emergent situation at vehicle with vehicle context" was invented by Matthew J Mazurek (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Laurent Dizambourg (Gif sur Yvette, France) and Saleh Bensator (Puteaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergent situation vehicle response system and method of facilitating a response to an emergent situation at a vehicle. The emergent situation vehicle response system includes at least one sensor and an onboard communications network for transmitting sensor data captured by the at least one sensor, as well as a re...