US Patent Issued to Maquet Critical Care on Aug. 4 for "Lung recruitment in mechanical ventilation" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,449, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Maquet Critical Care AB (Solna, Sweden).

"Lung recruitment in mechanical ventilation" was invented by Mari Andersson (Bandhagen, Sweden), Leif Lychou (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Sigun Israelsson (Jarfalla, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilation system includes a breathing apparatus which provides a mechanical ventilation to a patient. The breathing apparatus is configured to perform, at a first point in time, an automated full recruitment manoeuvre, FRM, comprising a recruitment phase and a PEEP titration phase, the FRM being performed based on preset FRM settings. The breathing apparat...