US Patent Issued to West Affum Holdings DAC on Sept. 2 for "Wearable medical device (WMD) implementing adaptive techniques to save power" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,324, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to West Affum Holdings DAC (Dublin).

"Wearable medical device (WMD) implementing adaptive techniques to save power" was invented by David P. Finch (Bothell, Wash.), Erick M. Roane (Bellevue, Wash.), Kenneth F. Cowan (Kirkland, Wash.), Derek J. Valleroy (Seattle) and Gregory T. Kavounas (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) comprises a plurality of electrocardiography (ECG) electrodes and a plurality of defibrillator electrodes to contact the patient's skin when the WCD is delivering therapy to the patient, a preamplifier coupled to the ECG elec...