US Patent Issued to ZOLL Medical on May 20 for "Water-resistant electrocardiogram sensor assembly for a wearable medical device" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,704, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Water-resistant electrocardiogram sensor assembly for a wearable medical device" was invented by Brian D. Snyder (Pittsburgh), Gordon A. Slippy (Murrysville, Pa.), Richard S. Sharbaugh (New Kensington, Pa.), Andrew R. Bigham (Pittsburgh) and Christopher S. Lucci (Murrysville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waterproof modular electrocardiogram (ECG) electrode assembly for use in a wearable cardiac monitoring device comprises a first, main circuit board comprising active ECG processing circuitry encapsulated in a waterproof moldable dielectric polymer...