US Patent Issued to NIHON KOHDEN on Aug. 4 for "Automated external defibrillator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,499, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NIHON KOHDEN Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automated external defibrillator" was invented by Ryosuke Kuno (Tokorozawa, Japan) and Junichi Miyachi (Tokorozawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated external defibrillator is configured to automatically execute a defibrillation process of delivering an electric shock for defibrillation to a heart of a subject. The defibrillator includes: a processor; and a memory that stores a computer-readable instruction that when executed by the processor, causes the defibrillator to perform operations including: receiving a physiological signal of the subject thro...