ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,184, issued on May 13, was assigned to West Affum Holdings DAC (Dublin).

"Providing wearable device information to rescuers" was invented by Brian D. Webster (Mercer Island, Wash.), Phillip D. Foshee Jr. (Woodinville, Wash.), David P. Finch (Bothell, Wash.) and Steven E. Sjoquist (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and implementations for a wearable healthcare system including an information management module (IMM). The IMM may be configured to detect proximity of a healthcare device. The IMM may be configured to determine a type of the detected healthcare device. Once the type of healthcare device is determi...