ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,336, issued on April 7, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Device and method for remote activation of an emergency alarm in a public safety radio" was invented by Joseph Namm (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An incident command radio (102) is configured to provide remote activation of an emergency alarm at a first responder radio (104) in response to being notified of a radio user under duress. Parameters are measured and analytics applied by the first responder radio (104) to detect a radio user under duress. In response to detecting duress, the first responder radio (104) automatically broadcasts th...