US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on July 28 for "Respiratory or surgical humidifier and method of use" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,239, issued on July 28, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Respiratory or surgical humidifier and method of use" was invented by Yintao Yu (Auckland, New Zealand), Sinaa Alnashi (Auckland, New Zealand), Wenjie Robin Liang (Auckland, New Zealand) and Jonathan Luke Hoi-Man Tsang (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved system and method of monitoring the operation of a respiratory or surgical humidifier system. A controllable load can be connected across output terminals to a tube heating element to test the operation of a tube heating element supply circuit. A range of te...