US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on July 14 for "For of water accumulation on ventilator airway circuits from airway pressure and flow" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,578, issued on July 14, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (The Netherlands, Antigua and Barbuda).

"For of water accumulation on ventilator airway circuits from airway pressure and flow" was invented by Ikaro Garcia Araujo da Silva (Cambridge, Mass.), Samer Bou Jawde (Cambridge, Mass.), Roberto Buizza (Cambridge, Mass.), Cornelis van Zon (Cambridge, Mass.), Isha Malekar (Cambridge, Mass.) and Francesco Vicario (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automated detection of water accumulation in a ventilator, comprising: (i) a plurality of iterations of: calculating an airway pressure water accumulation inde...