ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,796, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RAPIDSOS INC. (New York).

"911 outage detection and notification system for a public safety answering point (PSAP)" was invented by Martin Andres Minnoni (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Maximiliano Camporino (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Jamison Peevyhouse (Martin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency management system (EMS) generates a likelihood of a 911 service outage for a public safety access point (PSAP). The EMS receives supplemental call data for mobile devices that initiated 911 calls to a public safety answering point (PSAP). The EMS generates a 911 call volume metric for the ...