US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on Oct. 27 for "Apparatus for supplying gases to a patient" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,516, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Apparatus for supplying gases to a patient" was invented by Dean Antony Barker (Auckland, New Zealand), Kevin Peter O'Donnell (Auckland, New Zealand), Martin Paul Friedrich Kramer (Auckland, New Zealand), Stanislav Tatkov (Auckland, New Zealand) and Therese Clark (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for the supply of humidified gases to a patient is disclosed that comprises a gases supply passage downstream of a humidified gases supply, and upstream of a patient in use, where at least one sensor is embedded ...