US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for concurrent airway stabilization and pulmonary stretch receptor activation" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,523, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for concurrent airway stabilization and pulmonary stretch receptor activation" was invented by Jonathan Sayer Grashow (Cheswick, Pa.), Gregory Delano Matthews (Pittsburgh), Michael Thomas Kane (Harrison City, Pa.) and Eugene Nelson Scarberry (Trafford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concurrent treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension in a patient, via a pressure generating device, includes providing a flow of treatment gas to an airway of a patient in accordance with an initial set of flow parameters with r...