ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,114, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dragerwerk AG & Co. KGaA (Lubeck, Germany).
"Complete ECG contact impedance determination" was invented by Derek Y. Qin (Andover, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECG monitoring method and apparatus are presented in which contact impedances including capacitive components are utilized to, for example, reduce false alarms for lead-off conditions. In one aspect of the disclosure a method includes monitoring a plurality of Electrocardiogram ("ECG") electrodes ostensibly electrically connected to a human body; determining the respective contact impedance for each of the ECG electrodes as a...