ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,241, issued on June 23, was assigned to Peiker Holding GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Method for operating a tele-emergency physician system and tele-emergency physician system" was invented by Benjamin Hellmann (Berlin) and Sebastian Timme (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a tele-emergency physician system that includes integrating a WLAN-capable ECG device into a first WLAN network provided by a portable router, and providing first aid to an accident victim outside a vehicle. Vital data of the accident victim is transmitted by the portable router from the first WLAN network via a mobile wireless network t...