ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,454, issued on Dec. 16.
"Distributed defibrillator system to enable rapid response for cardiac or pulmonary arrest" was invented by Vladimir Polic (Portoroz, Slovenia) and Martin Alpert (Beachwood, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable wearable defibrillator device, a distributed defibrillator system, and a computer-implemented method use at least one node that is connected to a wireless network and communicates with sensors, electronic mobile devices, and/or defibrillator devices to determine when a person is having a cardiac or pulmonary event or other event, identify a person who is able to assist the arresting person, an...