US Patent Issued to ZOLL RESPICARDIA on Feb. 24 for "Detecting and treating disordered breathing" (American, Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,539, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ZOLL RESPICARDIA INC. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Detecting and treating disordered breathing" was invented by Mark Gelfand (New York), Howard R. Levin (Teaneck, N.J.), Andrew Halpert (Coral Springs, Fla.) and Antonios Panteleon (Nea Penteli, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for treating disordered breathing of a human being includes an implantable transvenous stimulation lead having at least one stimulation electrode and a sensor configured to detect activity level of the human being. The system includes an energy source, a pulse generator and circuitry, the circuitry operative to rece...