ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,493, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ambulance service support device, ambulance service support method, and program storage medium" was invented by Hiroki Naoshima (Tokyo), Hironori Nakata (Tokyo), Eiji Takada (Tokyo), Yuji Takagi (Tokyo) and Yuri Mashimo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ambulance service support device receives biological information to be used for personal identification of a person to be transported. The ambulance service support device identifies, using a database storing personal medical information, the personal medical information of the person to be transported by using the acq...