US Patent Issued to ZOLL Medical on Oct. 6 for "Selective activation of chest compressions synchronized with myocardial activity" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,894, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Selective activation of chest compressions synchronized with myocardial activity" was invented by Christopher L. Kaufman (Somerville, Mass.), Joshua W. Lampe (Groton, Mass.), Gary A. Freeman (Waltham, Mass.), Naveed Zaidi (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Annemarie E. Silver (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing resuscitative chest compressions to a chest of a patient are described. One exemplary system may include a chest compressor for administering chest compressions to the patient, one or more sensors for measuring and ...