ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,716, issued on April 22, was assigned to ATOS PUBLIC SAFETY LLC (Irving, Texas).

"Method and system for automatically prioritizing emergency calls based on health data" was invented by Charalampos Grigoropoulos (Chalandri, Greece), Manfred Kehr (Munich), Nikolaos Ploumitsakos (Maroussi, Greece), Michail Sdrallis (Chalandri, Greece) and Konstantia Markantoni (Metamorfosi, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system can automatically prioritize emergency calls based on health data. Such prioritization can be provided even when the call is placed by a person who has no idea of what has happened in the incident and cannot ...