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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2016
Pression Llc, Landenberg, PA (US);
Adam C. Salamon, Landenberg, PA (US);
Richard L. Hughson, Agatha, CA;
Sean D. Peterson, Gadshill, CA;
Chekema N. Prince, Kitchener, CA;
PRESSION LLC, Landenburg, unknown;
Abstract
Embodiments relate to devices, systems and methods of assisting blood flow return to the heart from a limb. The device comprising a wearable garment and a compression apparatus embedded in the garment for applying an external compression to a limb of a user and at least one of a processor or a controller configured to control the compression apparatus to apply the external compression, according to a compression sequence, to a muscle of the limb of the user based on real-time measurements regarding a cardiac cycle having a diastolic phase and systolic phase of the user and real-time measurements of muscle activity. The compression sequence is synchronized to commence when both a local blood flow at the limb is in the diastolic phase and the muscle is in a non-contracted state.