US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Feb. 17 for "Exhaust arrangement for patient interface device and patient interface including same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,648, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Exhaust arrangement for patient interface device and patient interface including same" was invented by Jonathan Sayer Grashow (Monroeville, Pa.), Elizabeth Powell Margaria (Monroeville, Pa.) and Robert Edward O'Grady (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for exhausting gases from a cavity of a patient interface to an ambient environment, patient interface for use in providing a flow of treatment gas to the airway of a patient. The arrangement includes a body member that forms a portion of the patient interface between the c...