ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,385, issued on April 29, was assigned to PHYSIO-CONTROL INC. (Redmond, Wash.).
"CPR chest compression system" was invented by Erik von Schenck (Lomma, Sweden), Anders Nilsson (Lund, Sweden), Sara Lindroth (Lund, Sweden), Jonas Lagerstrom (Fagersanna, Sweden), Bjarne Madsen Hardig (Lund, Sweden) and Thomas Falk (Staffanstorp, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments, a CPR chest compression system includes a retention structure that can retain the patient's body, and a compression mechanism that can perform automatically CPR compressions and releases to the patient's chest. The compression mechanism can pause the performing...