US Patent Issued to ZOLL MEDICAL on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for conductive gel deployment" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,851, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ZOLL MEDICAL Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for conductive gel deployment" was invented by Thomas E. Kaib (Irwin, Pa.), Gary A. Freeman (Waltham, Mass.) and Phillip Hier Amsler (Cheswick, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a wearable cardiac therapeutic system including a plurality of therapy electrodes disposed in a garment and a fluid pressure source including a barrel configured to house the conductive gel and an actuation mechanism. A therapy controller is configured to detect an arrhythmic event in a patient based on sensed electrical activity of the patient's...