Patent ID: 9449441
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G06Q,G07C

Claim Text:
1. A method of identifying and tracking victims of a casualty event, said method comprising: locating an individual victim of the casualty event; separating a tag portion from a container portion of a two-part tag, wherein the tag portion includes a tag indicia and the container portion includes a container indicia corresponding to the tag indicia; attaching the tag portion to the victim or to an object associated with the victim, whereby the tag portion remains with the victim; electronically scanning and recording the tag indicia to an electronic victim data file using a handheld computer operating a computer software program; determining and recording in the victim data file, with the handheld computer, the geographical location of the tag portion that remains with the victim in a first location; removing a tissue sample from the victim; placing the tissue sample into the container portion of the two-part tag; forwarding the container portion with the tissue sample to a remote location for DNA analysis of the tissue sample; identifying the victim via the DNA analysis of the tissue sample; and electronically updating the victim data file in a computer database to reflect the victim identity.