US Patent Issued to ZOLL Medical on April 7 for "Method and apparatus for monitoring manual chest compression efficiently during CPR" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,220, issued on April 7, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Method and apparatus for monitoring manual chest compression efficiently during CPR" was invented by Leszek Bogdanowicz (Chelmsford, Mass.), Brian J Skelton (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Michael C Garrett (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression measurement and feedback system which measures the magnitude and the angle of manual CPR force applied to a patient and provides the measured magnitude and direction information as compression data feedback to the person applying CPR to the patient. Any variation in the magnitude or direction of ...