US Patent Issued to West Affum Holdings DAC on Oct. 7 for "Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system computing heart rate from noisy ECG signal" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,067, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to West Affum Holdings DAC (Dublin).

"Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system computing heart rate from noisy ECG signal" was invented by Joseph L. Sullivan (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments, a WCD system includes electrodes with which it senses an ECG signal of the patient. A processor may detect sequential peaks within the ECG signal, measure durations of time intervals between the peaks, including between non-sequential peaks, and identify a representative duration that best meets a plausibility criterion. The plausibility criterion may be that the representa...