ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,706, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).
"System and method for conserving power in a medical device" was invented by Shane S. Volpe (Saltsburg, Pa.), Richard A. Rattanni (Verona, Pa.) and Thomas E. Kaib (Irwin, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for conservation of battery power in a portable medical device is provided. In one example, a processor arrangement includes a dual core processor having an ARM core and a DSP core. The portable medical device includes a monitor having the dual core processor, in communication with a belt node processor. The DSP core receives physiolo...