US Patent Issued to WEST AFFUM HOLDINGS DAC on July 15 for "Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system selecting previously identified preferred channel for attempting to detect pacing artifacts" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,838, issued on July 15, was assigned to WEST AFFUM HOLDINGS DAC (Dublin).

"Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system selecting previously identified preferred channel for attempting to detect pacing artifacts" was invented by Jaeho Kim (Redmond, Wash.) and Gregory T. Kavounas (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system is adapted for use by an ambulatory patient who already has an implanted pacemaker. If implanted, such a pacemaker may occasionally be emitting, without the knowledge of the WCD system, pacing signals that may be adding pacing artifacts to the ECG signal. Th...