ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,179, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Augmented reality device for providing feedback to an acute care provider" was invented by Gary A. Freeman (Waltham, Mass.), Guy R. Johnson (Wilton, N.H.), Justin R. Carroll (Brighton, Colo.) and Brett B. Bonner (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatially sensitive augmented reality system for providing resuscitative feedback in a mixed reality environment to an acute care provider during occurrence of a cardiac event in a patient includes a wearable augmented reality device having at least one three-dimensional sensor, a visual display ...