US Patent Issued to West Affum Holdings DAC on Aug. 5 for "Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system detecting QRS complexes in ECG signal by matched difference filter" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,279, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to West Affum Holdings DAC (Dublin).

"Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system detecting QRS complexes in ECG signal by matched difference filter" was invented by Joseph L. Sullivan (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments, a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system includes electrodes that render an ECG signal of the patient, and a processor that receives ECG data are derived from the rendered ECG signal. The processor may filter the received ECG data with a matched difference filter to detect QRS complexes, and compute a heart rate from the detected QRS comple...