US Patent Issued to West Affum Holdings DAC on June 2 for "WCD pacing pulse generation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,981, issued on June 2, was assigned to West Affum Holdings DAC (Dublin).

"WCD pacing pulse generation" was invented by David P. Finch (Bothell, Wash.), Leo J. Gilbert (Kirkland, Wash.), Joseph L. Sullivan (Kirkland, Wash.), Jaeho Kim (Redmond, Wash.), John Wei-Hao Huang (Bothell, Wash.), Brian J. Bennett (Redmond, Wash.) and Kenneth F. Cowan (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for generating pulse pacing in a wearable cardioverter defibrillator ("WCD"). In one aspect the WCD circuitry includes a power source such as a battery coupled to a charger that provides charge energy to an energy storage module....