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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,692, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Garments for wearable medical devices" was invented by Thomas E Kaib (Irwin, Pa.), Shane S Volpe (Saltsburg, Pa.), Gregory R Frank (Mt. Lebanon, Pa.), Gary A Freeman (Waltham, Mass.) and Mark Jerome Owens (Wexford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, an improved modular wearable medical device for monitoring a patient's ECG signals and providing therapeutic shocks in the event of a cardiac arrhythmia is provided. The device includes a garment, a plurality of ECG sensing electrodes that are permanently coupled at first predetermined...