ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,002, issued on July 14.

"Providing emergency, preauthorized access to medication information" was invented by Mark Lamoncha (Columbiana, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing emergency access to information regarding prescribed medications are provide. A request for emergency access is received from a requesting healthcare provider device associated with an emergency provider. The request includes authentication information for a patient received from an authentication device associated with the requesting healthcare provider device. The received authentication information is verified by a server again...