US Patent Issued to Nihon Kohden on Dec. 9 for "Automated external defibrillator and method for displaying state of automated external defibrillator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,372, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Nihon Kohden Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automated external defibrillator and method for displaying state of automated external defibrillator" was invented by Kota Kumamoto (Saitama, Japan), Fumihito Iwai (Saitama, Japan), Naoto Akiyama (Saitama, Japan) and Ryosuke Kuno (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated external defibrillator includes: a self-test executor that executes a self-test for checking a state of the automated external defibrillator; and a display unit that indicates the state of the automated external defibrillator. The display unit makes: a first display when the automate...