US Patent Issued to West Affum Holdings DAC on Aug. 11 for "Methods and systems for distinguishing VT from VF" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,850, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to West Affum Holdings DAC (Dublin).

"Methods and systems for distinguishing VT from VF" was invented by Joseph L. Sullivan (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system include a support structure for wearing by an ambulatory patient and at least one processor. When worn, the support structure maintains electrodes on the patient's body, and using the patient's ECG received via the electrodes, the processor determines widths of the QRS complexes, consistency of the QRS complexes, and/or heart rate and uses these determinations to ...