ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,557, issued on April 21, was assigned to Nihon Kohden Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automated external defibrillator" was invented by Ryosuke Kuno (Saitama, Japan), Kanchi Ito (Saitama, Japan), Yuji Igawa (Saitama, Japan), Fumihito Iwai (Saitama, Japan) and Tsutomu Wakabayashi (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated external defibrillator includes: an operation accepter that accepts an operation input from a user; and a self-test executor that executes a self-test for checking a state of the automated external defibrillator when a first condition or a second condition has been satisfied. The first condition is that a setting t...