US Patent Issued to NEC on March 18 for "Rescue support apparatus, system and method, and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,761, issued on March 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rescue support apparatus, system and method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Masanori Kobayashi (Tokyo), Mizuki Kato (Tokyo) and Tsubasa Ogikubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rescue support apparatus includes: a registration unit configured to register biometric information and personal information of a prospective climber to be associated with each other; a reception unit configured to receive an image and positional information of a terminal of an arbitrary finder from the terminal in a case where the arbitrary finder finds a person to be rescued ...