ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,530, issued on May 19, was assigned to Bardy Technologies Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Defibrillation assembly energizable through magnet removal" was invented by Jason Felix (Vashon Island, Wash.), Gust H. Bardy (Carnation, Wash.) and Cameron M.D. Bardy (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a defibrillation assembly energizable through magnet removal is provided. The defibrillation assembly includes an a magnetically triggered reed switch; an energy storage element that supplies power to the magnetically triggered reed switch; circuitry configured to generate a defibrillation waveform, wherein the circuitry ...