US Patent Issued to Japan Lifeline on Oct. 20 for "Defibrillation control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,329, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Japan Lifeline Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Defibrillation control device" was invented by Naoya Sakashita (Tokyo) and Yasuhiro Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A defibrillation control device includes a power source unit that supplies electrical energy to an electrode catheter, an abnormality detection unit that detects an earliest abnormal waveform by using a plurality of electrocardiographic waveforms measured by a plurality of electrodes of the electrode catheter after supplying the electrical energy, and a warning unit that issues an alert upon detecting the earliest abnormal waveform."...