US 7,548,781 B2
Environmentally responsive active status indicator system and method
Gintaras A. Vaisnys, Guilford, Conn. (US); Giovanni C. Meier, Guilford, Conn. (US); and Glenn W. Laub, Guilford, Conn. (US)
Assigned to Defibtech, LLC, Guilford, Conn. (US)
Filed on Mar. 21, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/386,057.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/663909, filed on Mar. 21, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0078487 A1, Apr. 05, 2007
Int. Cl. A61N 1/39 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 607—5 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A status indicator system comprising:
an indicator for communicating status of a defibrillator while the defibrillator is in a non-operative state;
a sensor for measuring ambient environmental conditions of the defibrillator; and
a controller for adjusting one of an intensity, a frequency and a duration of the indicator in response to the ambient environmental conditions measured by the sensor, wherein the controller communicates with the sensor to detect reflections produced by the indicator.