US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on Dec. 2 for "Automatically adjusting headgear for patient interface" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,245, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Automatically adjusting headgear for patient interface" was invented by Mark Arvind McLaren (Auckland, New Zealand), Jeroen Hammer (Auckland, New Zealand), Vitaly Kapelevich (Auckland, New Zealand) and Brett John Huddart (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headgear for securing a mask to a user's face is described. The headgear requires a first load force to elongate the headgear and, when fitted to a user, applies a balanced fit force that substantially equals a load force applied to the headgear during respiratory the...