ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,816, issued on March 31, was assigned to Loewenstein Medical Technology S.A. (Luxembourg).

"Telemonitoring in respiration" was invented by Matthias Schwaibold (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for respiration comprises a respirator, input unit, and telemonitoring unit. The respirator comprises a sensor unit which comprises sensors whose measured values permit an ascertainment of pressure and/or flow and/or volume of supplied and/or exhaled gases, a preparation unit which prepares acquired measured values, a computation unit which determines signals and/or characteristic variables based on the measured value...