ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,792, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Defibrillating electrical apparatus and defibrillation signal generation method" was invented by Shinichiro Sakamoto (Settsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The defibrillating electrical apparatus is controlled such that the enabling signal generator generates an enabling signal for the (n+1)-th R wave (Rn+1) when and after a first time interval (T1) as a time interval from the n-th R wave (Rn) to the (n+1)-th R wave (Rn+1) of an electrocardiographic waveform (50) exceeds a first predetermined time period, if the first time interval (T1) is equal to or less t...