US Patent Issued to ZOLL Medical on June 9 for "ECG and defibrillator electrode detection and tracking system and method" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,054, issued on June 9, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"ECG and defibrillator electrode detection and tracking system and method" was invented by Michael J. Riley (Groveland, Mass.), Gary A. Freeman (Waltham, Mass.), Frederick J. Geheb (Danvers, Mass.), Annemarie E. Silver (Bedford, Mass.) and Lisa M. Campana (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for aiding in the proper placement of ECG electrodes and other resuscitation parameters. The system includes motion sensors disposed on the ECG electrodes, and a defibrillator control system operable to interpret motion signals from the mot...