US Patent Issued to ZOLL Medical on Feb. 17 for "Adhesively coupled wearable medical device" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,693, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Adhesively coupled wearable medical device" was invented by Gary A Freeman (Waltham, Mass.) and James A Patterson III (Claridge, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient-worn arrhythmia monitoring and treatment device includes an anterior adhesively coupled pad, a posterior adhesively coupled pad, and a wearable support integrated with the anterior and posterior adhesively coupled pads. The wearable support is configured to bear at least a portion of the weight of at least one of the anterior adhesively coupled pad or the posterior adhesively coupled...