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Granted Patent B2
US 12,208,273 · App. 18/335,300 · Granted Jan 28, 2025

Medical equipment servicing

Inventors: Ziad F Elghazzawi (Newton, MA); Ian B Durrant (Acton, MA); Henry Clay Constantine, III (Rochester, NY)
Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
A61N1/3904A61N1/39044A61N1/3931G06F16/22G06F16/23G16H40/40H04W64/00
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Patent No.
US 12,208,273
App. No.
18/335,300
Granted
Jan 28, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A medical equipment management system is described that includes a database including status and software information for medical equipment, a user interface configured to display at least one summary level indicator comprising a summary level status indicator for at least one group of the medical equipment, wherein the group of medical equipment corresponds to a user-defined geographic region, and a computer located remotely from the medical equipment and communicatively coupled to the user interface and the database, the computer configured to establish a communicative connection with the medical equipment, receive status updates from the medical equipment, update the status information in the database based on the status updates, receive a request to access the database, and provide the updated status information for the group of medical equipment to the user interface, wherein the summary level status indicator at the user interface is based on the updated status information.

Claims (29)

1. A medical equipment management system, comprising:

a database configured to store status information for a plurality of automated external defibrillators; and

a server in communication with the database and the plurality of automated external defibrillators, the server configured to:

receive status updates from the plurality of automated external defibrillators, the status updates including information regarding at least one of: self-test result, battery charge level, and electrode expiry,

store the status updates in the database,

receive an authentication request to grant a user access to a set of status updates associated with a grouping of the plurality of automated external defibrillators,

authenticate the user in response to the request,

receive one or more requests to access the status updates associated with the grouping of the plurality of automated external defibrillators, and

send summary level status information regarding the status updates associated with the grouping of the plurality of automated external defibrillators to at least one computing device display at an associated user interface.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the server is in communication with the plurality of automated external defibrillators via a cellular connection.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the server is in communication with the plurality of automated external defibrillators via a WiFi connection.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the self-test result comprises a self-test pass result and the summary level status information provides an indication of the self-test pass result.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the self-test result comprises a self-test fail result and the summary level status information provides an indication of the self-test fail result.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the indication of the self-test fail result comprises a reason for failure of the self-test.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the summary level status information provides for display of color-coded icons indicative of functional status of the grouping of the plurality of automated external defibrillators.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the color-coded icons are associated with each of the grouping of the plurality of automated external defibrillators.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the color-coded icons provide for red, yellow or green functional status indications.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein a green color-coded icon is representative of an automated external defibrillator that has recently been tested and is fully functional.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein a red color-coded icon is representative of an automated external defibrillator that is not fully functional.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein a yellow color-coded icon is representative of an automated external defibrillator that has not recently been tested but was previously functional at a time of a last test or representative of equipment that is in need of servicing.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the summary level status information provides for a percentage of automated external defibrillators that fall into a functional status category.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the summary level status information comprises location of at least one of the plurality of automated external defibrillators.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the summary level status information comprises location level summary information about the status of the plurality of automated external defibrillators.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the authentication request comprises a request to grant administrator level user access to the plurality of automated external defibrillators.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the summary level status information comprises device identification information.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the device identification information comprises at least one device serial number.

19. The system of claim 17 , wherein the device identification information comprises device model information.

20. The system of claim 1 , wherein the summary level status information provides location information for the grouping of the plurality of automated external defibrillators.

21. The system of claim 1 , wherein the grouping of the plurality of automated external defibrillators is by geographic proximity.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 16, 2023
From: ELGHAZZAWI, ZIAD F; DURRANT, IAN; CONSTANTINE, HENRY CLAY, III
To: ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063973/0228 →
Continuity (7)
Continuation 17159316 · Jan 27, 2021
Continuation 16280075 · Feb 20, 2019
Continuation 15957946 · Apr 20, 2018
Continuation 15624779 · Jun 16, 2017
Continuation 14823715 · Aug 11, 2015
Continuation 13558957 · Jul 26, 2012
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