ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,680, issued on March 24, was assigned to ST FamTech LLC (Delray Beach, Fla.).

"Method and device for audio recording" was invented by Steven W. Goldstein (Delray Beach, Fla.), John Usher (Devon, Great Britain) and Marc Andre Boillot (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accident detector includes a processor, one or more sensors operatively coupled to the processor where the one or more sensors acquire at the ear, on the ear or within an ear canal, one or more of acceleration, blood oxygen saturation, blood pressure or heart-rate, and the one or more sensors configured to monitor a biological state or a physical motion...