ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,170, issued on April 22, was assigned to Avive Solutions Inc. (Brisbane, Calif.).

"Responder network" was invented by Sameer Jafri (San Diego), Micah R. Bongberg (Mercer Island, Wash.), Rory M. Beyer (San Mateo, Calif.), Gordon Moseley P. Andrews (Ross, Calif.) and David Picco (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variety of methods, medical devices, responder network servers, emergency services interfaces and call center related processes are described that can help improve responder networks designed to get a medical device such as an automated external defibrillator and/or volunteer responders to the scene of a poten...