US Patent Issued to Bardy Technologies on April 21 for "Defibrillator with solid state protection circuitry" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,559, issued on April 21, was assigned to Bardy Technologies Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Defibrillator with solid state protection circuitry" was invented by Jason Felix (Vashon Island, Wash.) and Gust H. Bardy (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "AED patient protection circuitry is improved by using triode for alternating current (TRIACs), which are significantly smaller and cheaper than relays. The TRIACs are positioned between a defibrillation waveform generator and the pads through which defibrillation waveforms are delivered to the patient and alternate under the control of a processing element such as a microcontroller...