ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,696, issued on May 6, was assigned to Avive Solutions Inc. (Brisbane, Calif.).
"Modular defibrillator architecture" was invented by Gordon Moseley P. Andrews (Ross, Calif.) and Rory M. Beyer (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Defibrillators, defibrillator architectures, defibrillator interface units and methods of operating defibrillators are described. In one aspect, a modular defibrillator architecture is described. A base unit provides a fully functional defibrillator. The functionality of the base unit can be supplemented by attaching an interface unit to the base unit. The defibrillator interface unit includes a h...