US Patent Issued to West Affum Holdings DAC on Jan. 13 for "Multichannel posture dependent template based rhythm discrimination in a wearable cardioverter defibrillator" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,548, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to West Affum Holdings DAC (Dublin).

"Multichannel posture dependent template based rhythm discrimination in a wearable cardioverter defibrillator" was invented by Jaeho Kim (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system include a support structure for wearing by an ambulatory patient, a posture detector and at least one processor. When worn, the support structure maintains electrodes on the patient's body, and using the posture detector and the patient's ECG received via the electrodes, the processor determines the patient's postur...