ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,628, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Medical equipment management" was invented by John P. Pierson (Tewksbury, Mass.), Ian B. Durrant (Acton, Mass.), Kristopher M. Edgell (Shreveport, La.) and Joanne R. Parrill (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for managing medical equipment includes presenting, at a display of a mobile computing device associated with an inspector, an inspection user interface configured to capture one or more user inputs from the inspector, receiving inspection account information via the one or more user inputs, receiving a locat...