US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on July 1 for "Predictive diagnostic system for a distributed population of automated external defibrillator devices" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,549, issued on July 1, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Predictive diagnostic system for a distributed population of automated external defibrillator devices" was invented by Gregory James Lancaster (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A predictive diagnostic system (10) for a distributed population of automated external defibrillator (AED) devices comprises a plurality of AEDs (12) and a remote service provider (RSP) computer (14) configured to receive and transmit information pertaining to periodic AED self-tests. Each AED (121 to 12N) is provided with a controller for testing a readiness of the...