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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2022
West Affum Holdings Dac, Dublin, IE;
Cameron G. Pollock, Kirkland, WA (US);
Stacy Taylor, Kingston, WA (US);
Kenneth F. Cowan, Everett, WA (US);
Traci S. Umberger, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gregory T. Kavounas, Bellevue, WA (US);
West Affum Holdings DAC, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
A Wearable Medical System (WMS) that implements a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD), includes a microphone and related improvements. The microphone can be on the same dongle as the cancel switch of the WCD. A user trigger module may permit the patient to perform a deliberate act and, in response, the system may start recording audio from the ambient sounds, including their own voice, and/or start recording the ECG. The deliberate act may even be a voice command by the patient that is parsed by a voice recognition module. The WMS may continuously record audio and then continuously discard it, and further stop the discarding if it detects a recording trigger. The WMS may create an exportable computer file that has audio-related data, which can have playable sound data or transcribed voice data.