US Patent Issued to 4activeSystems on Sept. 15 for "Dummy device for simulation of human respiration and method for operating a dummy device" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,180, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to 4activeSystems GmbH (Traboch, Austria).

"Dummy device for simulation of human respiration and method for operating a dummy device" was invented by Martin Fritz (Kobenz, Austria) and Thomas Wimmer (St. Georg am Langsee, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dummy device includes a torso element which simulates a torso of a human; a respiration simulation element which at least partially covers the torso element, and which is movably arranged with respect to the torso element; and a drive element which is adapted to sequentially move the respiration simulation element away from the torso ele...