ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,499, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Maintenance systems and methods for medical devices" was invented by Ian Lee Wai Kwan (Auckland, New Zealand), Warushahennedige Hansinie Soysa (Auckland, New Zealand), Wenjie Robin Liang (Auckland, New Zealand) and Dexter Chi Lun Cheung (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance system for a medical device includes a user device configured to communicate with the medical device and execute maintenance tasks on the medical device and communicate with a user via a user interface of the user device or the medical devi...