ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,597, issued on March 24, was assigned to Naxos Finance SA (Luxembourg).
"Alert ringtone for urgent messages" was invented by Ana Flavia Assis Dourado (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a mobile communication apparatus and a method for receiving messages upon the arrival of a message flagged as "urgent", for automatically sounding an alert ringtone discernible from those assigned for other purposes, including those that various people may send and ring in the receiving mobile communication apparatus of the addressee. When changes occur in the ringtones due to the displacement of the mobile communication ap...