ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,238, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).
"Ventilator system reporting" was invented by Gary A. Freeman (Waltham, Mass.), Annemarie E. Silver (Bedford, Mass.), Ulrich Herken (Medford, Mass.) and Jon P. Cloutier (Thornton, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system includes a manual patient ventilation unit defining an airflow path arranged so that when the unit is applied to a patient the airflow path is in fluid communication with the patient's airway. The patient ventilation unit includes a ventilation bag configured to enable manual ventilation of the patient by a rescuer, an airflow ...