ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,305, issued on June 30.
"Combined testing and treatment unit" was invented by Kathryn Cashman (Nashville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined or convertible handheld unit that combines a personal spirometer, exhalation-analysis or breath-analysis function with a nebulizer or vaporizing function. The nebulizer or vaporizing function includes, but is not limited to, functions provided by devices such as inhalers, nebulizers, vaporizers, humidifiers, ventilators, or other devices that are used for delivery of any sort of substance into the body via breathing, and includes but is not limited to devices that break up solutions...