US Patent Issued to West Affum Holdings DAC on Feb. 18 for "Detecting nonsustained ventricular tachycardia in a wearable cardioverter defibrillator" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,219, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to West Affum Holdings DAC (Dublin).

"Detecting nonsustained ventricular tachycardia in a wearable cardioverter defibrillator" was invented by Jaeho Kim (Redmond, Wash.) and Joseph Sullivan (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method to monitor a patient's heart health is described. The method may include processing at least one electrocardiogram (ECG) signal and diagnosing an episode of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT) based at least in part on the processing of the at least one ECG signal. In some embodiments, the NSVT episode may satisfy an NSVT time d...