ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,328, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.).

"Automated condition-based suppression of CPR artifacts in ECG data" was invented by Ki H. Chon (Mansfield, Conn.) and Shirin Hajeb (Vernon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for automated external defibrillation for determining shock/no-shock decisions based on ECG readings taken when a patient is undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). A device may filter an ECG signal of a patient to reduce artifacts from the signal caused by CPR being performed on the patient. The device may use the f...