ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,064, issued on July 15.

"Systems enabling doctors to access medical device data" was invented by Fred W. Chapman (Newcastle, Wash.), Carrie Smith (Woodinville, Wash.) and Kirill Ubozhenko (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method is performed by a defibrillator and includes obtaining event data regarding treatment provided to a patient. The method also includes obtaining a key that facilitates validating a request from a computing device to access the event data, associating the key with the event data, and transmitting the key and the event data to a server. Another example method is performed by a mobile dev...