US Patent Issued to PHYSIO-CONTROL on June 17 for "Mechanical cardio pulmonary resuscitation device having a contact member" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,714, issued on June 17, was assigned to PHYSIO-CONTROL INC. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Mechanical cardio pulmonary resuscitation device having a contact member" was invented by Anders Jeppsson (Lund, Sweden) and Fred W. Chapman (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical CPR device having one or more of a piston, a driving component configured to extend the piston toward a patient's torso and retract the piston away from the patient's torso, a controller configured to control the driving component to at least compress the patient's torso by extending the piston from a reference position to a depth and retracting the piston ...