ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,010, issued on April 1, was assigned to GJN International LLC (Cherry Hill, N.J.).

"Opioid overdose alert wearable device method and devices" was invented by Renaya Furtick Wheelan (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Scott Shanks (Byrn Mawr, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclose a method including: monitoring vital signs of an opioid patient, providing chemical identifying and concentration detection of a drug the opioid patient is preparing to inject, analyzing the opioid patient's vital signs to determine an overdose condition regardless of the patient consciousness state, tracking the opioid patient's GPS location, trans...