ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,242, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for device inventory management and tracking" was invented by David C Major (Pittsburgh) and Wade T Braden (Glenshaw, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical service personnel management system. The system includes an electronic device associated with a medical service person having access to a first location, a network interface disposed in the electronic device and configured to facilitate transmission of medical service personnel information through a network. The system further includes at least one server...