US 12,462,931 B2
Management of medical equipment and responders
John P. Pierson, Tewksbury, MA (US); and Kristopher M. Edgell, Shreveport, LA (US)
Assigned to ZOLL Medical Corporation, Chelmsford, MA (US)
Filed by ZOLL Medical Corporation, Chelmsford, MA (US)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/634,319.
Application 18/634,319 is a continuation of application No. 17/621,411, granted, now 11,990,230, previously published as PCT/US2020/070235, filed on Jul. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/871,316, filed on Jul. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0257958 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 40/20 (2018.01) [G16H 40/40 (2018.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical equipment and responder management computing device comprising:
at least one non-transient memory; and
at least one processor that is operatively coupled with the at least one non-transient memory and that is configured to:
receive, from a computer aided dispatch system, emergency event information that includes an emergency event location;
retrieve, from a medical equipment database, a set of identified medical equipment located within a vicinity of the emergency event location;
send, via a network, (a) the emergency event location and (b) medical equipment location information for the set of identified medical equipment to (i) a first computing device associated with a first registered responder, and (ii) a second computing device associated with a second registered responder;
receive, from the first computing device, a selection of at least one first item of registered medical equipment selected from the set of identified medical equipment;
receive, from the first computing device, a current first responder location;
receive, from the second computing device, a current second responder location;
determine responder status information for the first registered responder based on the current first responder location and at least one of (a) the at least one first item of registered medical equipment or (b) the emergency event location; and
send, via the network, an activity log to the first computing device associated with the first registered responder, the activity log comprising:
a timer that indicates an elapsed time between a current time and a time that the emergency event information was received from the computer aided dispatch system,
the current second responder location,
an indication of the at least one first item of registered medical equipment, and
the responder status information for the first registered responder.