ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,569, issued on March 18, was assigned to Avive Solutions Inc. (Brisbane, Calif.).
"Defibrillator communications architecture" was invented by Andy Sturman (San Diego), David Picco (San Marcos, Calif.), Rory M. Beyer (San Mateo, Calif.), Gordon Moseley P. Andrews (Ross, Calif.) and Dean Allan Gereaux (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Status messages are wirelessly broadcast from medical devices (e.g., defibrillators) as advertisements that don't require the establishment of a wireless connection with listeners. The listeners are configured to act on, or forward received status messages as appropriate. The listeners may option...