ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,360, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Headgear assemblies and interface assemblies with headgear" was invented by Brett John Huddart (Auckland, New Zealand), Jeroen Hammer (Auckland, New Zealand), Matthew Robert Geoff Slight (Auckland, New Zealand), Vitaly Kapelevich (Auckland, New Zealand), David Monroy Felix (Auckland, New Zealand), Jason Allan Klenner (Auckland, New Zealand) and Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headgear system and/or an interface assembly incorporating a headgear system that, in some configurations, is c...