ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,224, issued on March 17, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Resuscitator" was invented by Birgitte Lidegaard Frederiksen (Virum, Denmark), Jakob Bonnelykke Kristensen (Olstykke, Denmark) and Alex Etwil (Albertslund, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The resuscitator (1) includes a self-inflating squeeze bag (2) having an inlet opening accommodating an inlet valve arrangement (6) adapted to allow inflow of air into the squeeze bag and to prevent outflow of air from the squeeze bag through the inlet opening and an outlet opening accommodating a patient valve arrangement (8) adapted to allow outflow of air from the squ...