ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,996, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Access to health information during emergency call" was invented by Walter Dees (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Vignesh Raja Krauppiah Ramachandran (Mol, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device (110) and an emergency entity (120) in a mobile network (130) accommodate emergency calls. The network is coupled to a medical database (140) comprising respective electronic health records (EHR) regarding respective persons. The mobile device is arranged to obtain the encrypted medical identifier of a user of the device; and, upon establish...