ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,709, issued on July 14, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Officer identity verification during a lockdown situation" was invented by Scott A Kaul (Streamwood, Ill.), David A Cismesia (Lombard, Ill.), Monica Sieklucki (Lincolnshire, Ill.) and Tylor Campbell (Ingleside, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organization can subscribe to an emergency notification service for alerting emergency service providers when an emergency occurs at a site of the organization, such as an emergency that necessitates a lockdown situation. When an emergency service provider is alerted that a lockdown is in effect, the emergency ser...