ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,277, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Display for dual-mode medical device" was invented by Ziad F. Elghazzawi (Newton, Mass.), John Kubat (Townsend, Mass.), Frederick Faller (Burlington, Mass.), Jing Pan (Waban, Mass.) and Peter A. Lund (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a display area that has a thin panel having a substantially flat front surface portion, a translucent layer on a back surface of the thin panel, a layer of text or graphics on a back surface of the translucent layer, and arranged so that the text or graphics is not visible to a user on th...