ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,185, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Medical equipment electrodes" was invented by Ziad F Elghazzawi (Newton, Mass.) and Gary A Freeman (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for guiding a rescuer in treatment of a patient. A method may include initializing one or more cameras on an external electrode assembly including a pair of electrodes. The method may further include capturing image information via the one or more cameras, the image information comprising a series of images acquired by the one or more cameras. The method may further include, based...