ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,176, issued on May 13, was assigned to AtaCor Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).
"Cardiac defibrillation" was invented by Rick Sanghera (San Clemente, Calif.), Alan Marcovecchio (San Clemente, Calif.) and Sean P. McGeehan (Encinitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cardiac defibrillation system that includes a pulse generator to generate therapeutic electrical pulses and at least one lead inserted through an intercostal space in the region of a cardiac notch of the left lung of a patient, the lead having a distal end configured to transmit the therapeutic electrical pulses generated by the pulse generator to defibrillate th...