Heart Tronics Inc (HRTT)

[TechKim]

New Patent Awarded to Signalife
Tuesday July 10, 9:15 am ET


LOS ANGELES, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Signalife, Inc. (Amex: SGN - News) has announced that The United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the Company a new and important patent, which the Company has now added to its significant intellectual property portfolio.


The patent, which covers 56 claims, was awarded on all such claims by the Patent Office. Patent attorney and Signalife's Board member Ellsworth Roston supervised and prosecuted the patent application along with Chief Technology Officer Budimir S. Drakulic - the Company's inventor. The new patent is owned by Signalife, Inc.

In conjunction with the Patent Office's granting of the patent - entitled "Electrode For, and Method Of, Indicating Signal Characteristics At Particular Positions In A Patient's Body" - the Company will now evaluate whether or not it will file a continuation or continuation-in-part application for the purpose of pursuing additional claim coverage in the technology that may have occurred since the time of the original application.

Budimir Drakulic called the patent-issuance-development a "major milestone in the continued proliferation and protection of the Company's core technologies and products." Dr. Drakulic said he was gratified at the "many years of enormous expertise and energy that Mr. Roston has expended in the prosecution of all patents as well in the development of the Company's sophisticated intellectual property position."

The medical device maker currently has an application for its "credit card" size, over the counter (non-prescription), device pending before the Food and Drug Administration as well as several additional patents pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering a wide array of cardiac technologies and products. Dr. Drakulic stated that he is "confident the Company will continue to be successful in obtaining approval of its technologies and products in these endeavors."