ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,180, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Systems and methods for emergency vehicle telecommunications" was invented by Thomas Grycz (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computing systems, and technology for emergency vehicle telecommunications are presented. For example, a computing system may be configured to obtain incident data, via one or more sensors, descriptive of an incident event involving the vehicle. The computing system may be configured to determine, based on the incident data, that an emergency provider is to be contacted. The computing system may be con...