US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on Oct. 20 for "Heater plate for respiratory humidification systems" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,286, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Heater plate for respiratory humidification systems" was invented by Lloyd Dylan Kimble (Auckland, New Zealand), Weng Ip Tong (Auckland, New Zealand), Houde Huang (Auckland, New Zealand), Andrew Chi Lup Lau (Auckland, New Zealand), Emily Joyce Hargrave-Thomas (Auckland, New Zealand), Simon John Gray (Auckland, New Zealand), Timothy James Beresford Sharp (Auckland, New Zealand), Sean Joel Babbage (Auckland, New Zealand) and Hayk Noobar Antranik Yaghobian (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A respiratory humidification sy...