US Patent Issued to BIOPOTENTIAL on Nov. 11 for "Method and device for reproducible placement of ECG chest electrodes" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,257, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BIOPOTENTIAL Oy Ltd (Kuopio, Finland).

"Method and device for reproducible placement of ECG chest electrodes" was invented by Heikki Riekkinen (Kuopio, Finland), Tommi Riekkinen (Kuopio, Finland) and Annika Kolari (Kuopio, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods for marking positions for or for positioning of six ECG chest electrodes based on a subjects body height, which allows a reproducible placement of the electrodes in serial independent ECG measurements. The present invention further relates to a device for placement of ECG electrodes which implemen...