GREENVILLE, S.C., April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Signalife, Inc. has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the Company a new and important patent entitled “System For, And Method Of, Monitoring Heartbeats Of A Patient”. The patent, which covers 37 claims, will enhance the Company’s ability to develop new proprietary products.
Patent attorneys from Fulwider & Patton supervised and executed the patent application along with Chief Technology Officer Budimir S. Drakulic -- the inventor of the patented technology. The new patent is owned by Signalife, Inc. In conjunction with the Patent Office’s granting of the patent, 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 S. 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 continued to say that issued patents together with significant patent portfolio already submitted to the United States Patent Office and two Frost & Sullivan technology awards represent major achievements for a young medical device company.
The Company currently has 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 approvals for pending patents of its technologies and products.”
About Signalife
Signalife, Inc. is a life sciences company focused on the monitoring, detection and prevention of disease through continuous biomedical signal monitoring. Signalife uses its patented signal technology to design and develop medical devices, therapies and/or technologies that simplify and reduce the costs of cardiovascular disease.
Signalife, Inc. is traded on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol SGN. More information is located at www.signalife.com. Clear Data. Trusted Results.
Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this release that are not strictly historical are “forward-looking” statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, which may cause Signalife’s actual results in the future to differ materially from expected results. Factors which could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, failure to complete the development and introduction of heart monitoring and other biomedical devices incorporating Signalife’s technology, failure to obtain federal or state or governmental or international regulatory approvals governing heart monitoring and other biomedical devices incorporating Signalife’s technology, failure to obtain import and export capabilities in the various countries containing buyers and resellers and hospitals and clinics and doctors for the Signalife devices, inability to obtain physician, patient or insurance acceptance of for heart monitoring and other biomedical incorporating Signalife’s technology, and the unavailability of financing to complete management’s plans and objectives, including the development of heart monitoring and other biomedical incorporating Signalife’s technology. These risks are qualified in their entirety by cautionary language and risk factors set forth and to be further described in Signalife’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
CONTACT: Dr. Budimir Drakulic, CTO, Signalife, Inc., +1-864-233-2300
Web site: http://www.signalife.com/