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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2001
Applicants:
H. Ward Silver, Vashon, WA (US);
D. Craig Edwards, Fall City, WA (US);
Inventors:
H. Ward Silver, Vashon, WA (US);
D. Craig Edwards, Fall City, WA (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic Emergency Response Systems, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N001/00 ; A61B005/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system is described that comprises a medical device on which is installed a version of software and a software agent communicatively coupled to the medical device without regard to the version of software installed on the medical device. An example of the medical device includes a defibrillator. The software agent may reside in a personal digital assistant and can be operated to communicate with the defibrillator to access the data stored in the defibrillator irrespective of the version of software of the defibrillator.