ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,990, issued on April 7, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).
"Low-power signaling for medical devices and medical device personnel" was invented by Guy Robert Johnson (Gloucester, Mass.), Gary A. Freeman (Waltham, Mass.) and Ulrich Herken (Medford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that include at least one medical device having a device transceiver configured to wirelessly broadcast a device signal including at least unique identifier data and an information system is configured to maintain an active list of medical device i...