US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on Aug. 11 for "Method of driving a form of respiratory therapy" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,776, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Method of driving a form of respiratory therapy" was invented by David M. Rapoport (Auckland, New Zealand) and Mark Renfrew Titchener (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a medical device is disclosed for delivering respiratory therapy to a user to treat sleep-disordered breathing, for instance obstructive sleep apnea, Cheyne-Stokes respiration etc. by estimating the user's CO2 percentage or concentration from a dynamic lung model driven by an observed respiration signal. The estimated user's CO2 ...