ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,641, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Medical tool kit" was invented by Jeffrey D. Gerstner (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Robert Gerstner (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical tool kit is provided for packaging, storing, and transporting medical instruments and tools of various types. The medical tool kit is capable of providing continuing sterilization to the medical instruments and tools kept inside the medical tool kit after the tool case is opened during its normal use in a medical procedure. The medical tool kit is further capable of emitting a GPS tracking signal to identify the l...