US Patent Issued to DRAGERWERK on Sept. 9 for "Connection with a volume flow sensor and a homogenization unit for artificial ventilation of a patient and manufacturing process" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,293, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DRAGERWERK AG & Co. KGAA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Connection with a volume flow sensor and a homogenization unit for artificial ventilation of a patient and manufacturing process" was invented by Ludger Tappehorn (Lubeck, Germany), Jan-Henning Lutkhoff (Lubeck, Germany) and Frerich Asmus (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection device, for mechanical ventilation and monitoring of spontaneous breathing of a patient (P), includes a fluid-guiding unit (9, 11, 15) and establishes a fluid connection between a medical arrangement (100) and a patient-side coupling unit (19). A volume f...