US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on April 7 for "Control of flow and/or pressure provided by breathing apparatus" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,390, issued on April 7, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Control of flow and/or pressure provided by breathing apparatus" was invented by Stanislav Tatkov (Auckland, New Zealand), Kevin Peter O'Donnell (Auckland, New Zealand) and Sheng Feng (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention comprises a method of operating a breathing apparatus comprising measuring a baseline breath flow parameter being respiratory rate and/or tidal volume or a parameter derived therefrom, varying the flow rate provided by the breathing apparatus, measuring a current breath flow parameter being...