ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,510, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to RAPIDDEPLOY INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Enhanced situational awareness for emergency response" was invented by Steven Raucher (Austin, Texas), Brett Meyerowitz (Cape Town, South Africa) and Brooks Thomas Shannon (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency system can access a variety of situational data items, such as video streams, facility information, and present and past incident data. The emergency system identifies data items that may be relevant to a particular incident and provides the relevant data items in one or more user interfaces. For example, the emergency system identif...