US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on June 23 for "Respiratory interface" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,471, issued on June 23, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Respiratory interface" was invented by Stanislav Tatkov (Auckland, New Zealand), Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon (Auckland, New Zealand) and Maximilian Ichabod Pinkham (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A respiratory interface (100) for delivering gases to a single nare of a patient; comprises of a gases delivery assembly having a single sealing nasal prong (200) configured to seal with one of the nares of a patient, a conduit (300), a conduit connector (400) and a support (500) with headgear strap clips (503). The prong sl...