ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,507, issued on July 8, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).
"Conductive gel release and distribution devices" was invented by Robert J. Hulings (Mars, Pa.), Scott D. Quinnell (Kittanning, Pa.), Dale Ballard (Glenshaw, Pa.) and Ronald A Seman (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gel deployment device for use with an electrotherapy system is provided. The device includes a plurality of gel reservoirs disposed on a substrate, each of the plurality of gel reservoirs containing conductive gel. Each of the gel reservoirs are positioned adjacent to at least one seal such that the seal restricts flow of the conducti...