US Patent Issued to THE VEKTOR GROUP on July 15 for "Electrocardiogram lead generation" (California, Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,218, issued on July 15, was assigned to THE VEKTOR GROUP INC. (San Diego).

"Electrocardiogram lead generation" was invented by Christian David Marton (Jersey City, N.J.), Joseph Thomas Braidwood (Carlsbad, Calif.), Robert Joseph Krummen (Bellevue, Wash.) and Maurice J. Pirio (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are provided for synthesizing leads of an electrocardiogram (ECG) based on a subject ECG collected from a subject and converting a nonstandard ECG based on a nonstandard placement of electrodes to a standard ECG with a standard placement of electrodes. The described systems may generate simulated ECGs based on simul...