US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Sept. 23 for "Airway adaptor with liquid containment path" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,049, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Airway adaptor with liquid containment path" was invented by Mika Harri Juhani Hietala (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airway adaptor providing a measurement chamber for gas measurement by a mainstream gas analyzer includes a body having a first end and a second end and configured to connect in a ventilation circuit carrying ventilation gas to and from a patient. The body forms a primary path that includes the measurement chamber and is configured to allow ventilation gas to pass between the first end and the second end and at ...