US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Sept. 16 for "Asystole detection for cardiopulmonary resuscitation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,728, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Asystole detection for cardiopulmonary resuscitation" was invented by Chengzong Han (Andover, Mass.) and Saeed Babaeizadeh (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient monitoring device (20) employing an ECG monitor (24) and a controller (26). In operation, the ECG monitor (24) monitors a corrupted ECG waveform (30), and the controller (26) classifies the corrupted ECG waveform (30) as one of a non-shockable rhythm or a potentially shockable rhythm. The corrupted ECG waveform (30) is classified by the controller (26) as the non...