US Patent Issued to West Affum Holdings DAC on Feb. 25 for "Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) causing patient's QRS width to be plotted against the heart rate" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,274, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to West Affum Holdings DAC (Dublin).

"Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) causing patient's QRS width to be plotted against the heart rate" was invented by Laura M. Gustavson (Redmond, Wash.), David P. Finch (Bothell, Wash.) and Joseph L. Sullivan (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system includes a support structure that the patient may wear, and one or more sensors that may acquire patient physiological signals, such as ECG and others. A processor of the WCD system may determine diagnostics from the patient physiological signals. The...