ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,680, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods of producing patient encounter records" was invented by Elijah A. White (Wellesley, Mass.), Adam T. Dawson (Burlington, Canada), David A. Jaros (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Gary A. Freeman (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for consolidating medical data from multiple devices involved in a patient encounter is provided. The system includes a mobile computing device that acquires, via a medical device interface, identifiers of each medical device, generates association information including the one or more identifier...