US Patent Issued to ZOLL Medical on June 24 for "Garments for wearable medical devices" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,168, issued on June 24, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Garments for wearable medical devices" was invented by Thomas E. Kaib (Irwin, Pa.), Shane S. Volpe (Saltsburg, Pa.), Gregory R. Frank (Mt. Lebanon, Pa.), Gary A. Freeman (Waltham, Mass.) and Mark Jerome Owens (Wexford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to at least one aspect, a wearable cardiac device is provided. The wearable cardiac device includes a garment worn about a torso of a patient, at least one sensing electrode to monitor cardiac activity of the patient, and a controller including a plurality of separate and distinct modules distri...