ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,794, issued on March 24, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).
"Humidifier heater base" was invented by Venkata Subbarao Potharaju (Auckland, New Zealand), Yi-Cheng Sun (Auckland, New Zealand), Dominique Richard D'Andrea (Auckland, New Zealand) and Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon (Auckland, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A humidifier heater base assembly has a heater plate with a thermally conductive portion and a perimeter portion around a perimeter of the heater plate. A resilient member has an inner part attached to the perimeter portion and an outer part adapted to provide a resilient pe...