# US 12,594,431 B2 · AED actions remotely triggered by AED management platform > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,594,431 B2 - Document ID: US12594431B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/653,274 - Filed: 2024-05-02 - Published: 2024-11-07 - Granted: 2026-04-07 - Earliest claimed: 2023-05-02 - Assignees: Avive Solutions, Inc. - Applicants: Avive Solutions, Inc. - Inventors: Rory M. Beyer; Sameer Jafri; Micah R. Bongberg - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12594431B2 ## CPC - A61N 1/3993: {User interfaces for automatic external defibrillators} - A61N 1/025: {Digital circuitry features of electrotherapy devices, e.g. memory, clocks, processors} - A61N 1/046: {Specially adapted for shock therapy, e.g. defibrillation} - A61N 1/3625: {External stimulators} - A61N 1/3904: {External heart defibrillators [EHD]} - A61N 1/3925: {Monitoring; Protecting} - A61N 1/3981: {High voltage charging circuitry} - G06F 3/0484: for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range - G16H 40/63: for local operation - G16H 40/67: for remote operation - H04L 63/20: {for managing network security; network security policies in general (filtering policies H04L63/0227)} - H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks - A61N: ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY (measurement of bioelectric currents A61B; surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body A61B18/00; anaesthetic apparatus in general A61M; incandescent lamps H01K; infrared radiators for heating H05B) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G16H: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract Medical device management platforms, as for example, automated external defibrillator (AED) management platforms are described. The disclosure also describes systems, management platform graphical user interfaces, management server infrastructures, connected automated external defibrillators (AEDs), and protocols for communications between such system/devices that make it easier for owners, administrator, and others to manage their devices. The present disclosure also describes mechanisms that facilitate getting incident information to interested parties, including medical personnel, EMS personnel and others when an AED is used. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of obtaining updated status information from an automated external defibrillator (AED) capable of delivering a defibrillation shock to a cardiac arrest victim, the method comprising: at an AED management platform user interface rendered on an administrator computing device, receiving an administrator input that requests updated status information from a target AED; in response to the administrator inputted request, sending an update request message from the AED management platform user interface to an AED management server located remotely relative to the AED management platform user interface; by the AED management server, at least partially in response to reception of the update request message, sending a status check message to the target AED that prompts the target AED to convey current AED status information to the AED management server; at the AED management server, receiving the current status information from the target AED; sending the requested updated status information from the AED management server to the AED management platform user interface, wherein the updated status information includes at least some of the current status information; and in response to receiving the requested updated status information, rendering the requested updated status information within the AED management platform user interface on a display screen associated with the administrator computing device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the updated status information is rendered within the AED management platform user interface in real-time in response to the administrator inputted request. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) A method as recited in claim 1 wherein: in response to reception of the update request message, the AED management server sends a paging message to the target AED; and in response to receiving the paging message, the target AED opens a connection with the AED management server and sends the current AED status information to the AED management server over the connection. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the updated status information is or includes a current location of the target AED. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the updated status information rendered within the AED management platform includes a time that the target AED to conveyed the current AED status information to the AED management server. ### Claim 6 An automated external defibrillator (AED) management platform user interface embodied in a computer readable media, the AED management platform user interface being configured to display a prompt status check widget in association with a first AED, wherein when the prompt status check widget is activated, the AED management platform user interface sends an update AED status information request to an AED management server that prompts the AED management server to send a status check-in request to the first AED that prompts the first AED to send a first message to the AED management server that provides at least one of a current location of the AED and selected current status information regarding the AED. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) An AED management platform user interface as recited in claim 6 wherein the prompt status check widget is accessible or rendered within an AED status page associated with the first AED, the AED management platform user interface being further configured to receive updated information from the AED management server at least partially in response to the update AED status information request, and to render selected updated information in the AED status page without requiring further input from a user. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) An AED management platform user interface as recited in claim 7 wherein the AED status page includes a map, and the first message and the updated information both include the current location of the AED and upon receipt of the updated status information, the AED status page is updated to show the received current location of the AED on the map. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) An AED management platform user interface as recited in claim 8 further comprising rendering a refresh time in the AED management platform user interface that indicates a time that the current location was provided by the AED. ### Claim 10 An automated external defibrillator (AED) management user interface embodied in a computer readable media, the AED management user interface being configured to display a lost mode widget in association with a first AED, wherein when the lost mode widget is activated, the AED management user interface sends a first message to an AED management server that prompts the AED management server to send an activate Missing Protocol command to the first AED that prompts the first AED to send a second message to the AED management server that provides a current location of the AED. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) An AED management user interface as recited in claim 10 wherein the activate Missing Protocol command causes the AED to render a render a visual message on a display associated with the AED that provide return instructions that provide instructions indicating how to return the AED to a designated location or to a designated entity, owner, administrator or person. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) An AED management user interface as recited in claim 10 wherein the activate Missing Protocol command causes the AED to render an audio alert intended to bring attention to the AED. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) An AED management user interface as recited in claim 10 wherein the activate Missing Protocol command causes the AED to repeatedly transmit messages to the messages to the AED management server that each provide a then current location of the AED. ### Claim 14 An automated external defibrillator (AED) capable of delivering a defibrillation shock, the AED having a processor and memory having programmed instructions configured to, in response to the reception of an activate missing protocol message from a remotely located server: cause a first message to be sent to the server that indicates a current location of the AED; and cause an audio or visual message to be generated or rendered that provides return instructions for the AED. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) An AED as recited in claim 14 wherein the programmed instructions are further configured to cause the AED to periodically transmit location update messages to the server that update the current location of the AED until a missing protocol executed by the AED is cancelled. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) An AED as recited in claim 14 wherein the programmed instructions cause the AED to generate both audio and visual return instructions. ### Claim 17 (depends on 14) An AED as recited in claim 14 wherein the return instructions include at least one of: a request that the AED be returned to a designated location; and contact information indicating a contact for returning the AED. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) An AED as recited in claim 17 wherein the designated location or contact information is received from the server as part of the activate missing protocol message. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) An AED as recited in claim 18 further wherein the programmed instructions are further configured to cause a map to be rendered on a display screen of the AED that shows the designated location and directions to the designated location. ### Claim 20 A method comprising: at a medical device management platform rendered on an administrator computing device, receiving a user inputted lost mode selection for a selected therapeutic medical device and at least partially in response to the lost mode selection sending a lost mode activation request to a management server located remotely relative to the administrator computing device; at the management server, receiving the lost mode activation request, and a least partially in response to the lost mode activation request, sending a lost mode activation command to the selected therapeutic medical device; and at the selected therapeutic medical device, in response to receipt of the lost mode activation command, (a) sending first message to the management server that indicates a current location of the selected therapeutic medical device, and (b) generating or rendering an audio or visual message that provides return instructions for the therapeutic medical device; requests that the AED be returned to a designated location, or (ii) rendering a visual message on the display screen that requests that the AED be returned to the designated location. ### Claim 21 (depends on 20) A method as recited in claim 20 further comprising: at the management server, at least partially in response to receiving the first message, transmitting a second message to the selected therapeutic medical device that indicates the current location of the selected therapeutic medical device; and at the medical device management platform, at least partially in response to receiving the second message, showing the current location on a map rendered in the medical device management platform. ### Claim 22 (depends on 20) A method as recited in claim 20 wherein the therapeutic medical device generates or renders both audio and visual return instructions. ### Claim 23 (depends on 20) A method as recited in claim 20 wherein the return instructions include at least one of: a request that the AED be returned to a designated location; and contact information indicating a contact for returning the AED. ### Claim 24 (depends on 23) A method as recited in claim 23 further comprising, at the selected therapeutic medical device rendering a map on a display of the therapeutic medical device that shows the designated location and provides directions to the designated location. ### Claim 25 (depends on 20) A method as recited in claim 20 further comprising; in response to a user input on the administrator computing device requesting termination of the lost mode, transmitting a terminate lost mode request from the administrator computing device to the management server; by the management server, at least partially in response to receiving the terminate lost mode request, transmitting a terminate lost mode command to the selected therapeutic medical device; and by the therapeutic medical device at least partially in response to the reception of the terminate lost mode command, stopping the generation or rendering of the audio or visual message that provides return instructions for the therapeutic medical device.