ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,190, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for documenting emergency care" was invented by Tracy N. Ashmore (Frederick, Colo.), Annemarie E. Silver (Bedford, Mass.), Patricia A. Daggett (Billerica, Mass.) and Gary A. Freeman (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for documenting emergency medical events related to treatment of a patient is provided. The system includes a medical device configured to obtain physiological information from the patient and generate a first plurality of log entries that mark events that occur during treatment of the patient. The sy...