ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,304, issued on July 8, was assigned to WHELEN ENGINEERING COMPANY INC. (Chester, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for remote management of emergency equipment and personnel" was invented by Cole Jackson (Cheshire, Conn.), Kenneth Lemieux (Mystic, Conn.), Caleb Garrett (Essex, Conn.) and Joseph Eduardo (Middletown, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure presents a system for remotely managing emergency equipment through wireless network and methods to use this system to monitor emergency equipment and deliver emergency information to subscribers. The system for remotely managing emergency equipment includes at least a node, al...