ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,368, issued on July 14, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for providing resuscitation guidance based on physical features of a patient measured during an acute care event" was invented by Annemarie Silver (Bedford, Mass.), Paolo Giacometti (North Grafton, Mass.), Frederick J. Geheb (Lenexa, Kan.) and Gary A. Freeman (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assisting a user in performing chest compressions includes: at least one input device for providing information representative of a plurality of physical features of a patient; at least one chest compression sensor; a fe...