US Patent Issued to MEDICAL QUANT USA on May 26 for "Systems and methods for preserving and/or enhancing respiratory function" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,514, issued on May 26, was assigned to MEDICAL QUANT USA INC. (Solon, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for preserving and/or enhancing respiratory function" was invented by Douglas Johnson (Flat Rock, Mich.), Max Kanarsky (Solon, Ohio) and Ernesto Cesar Pinto Leal Junior (Sao Paulo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Respiratory function can be preserved and/or enhanced in patients with a respiratory insufficiency using a photoceutical applied by a photoceutical medical device to at least one primary inspiratory muscle and/or a lung. At least one site on a body of a patient can be selected for delivery of the photoceutical to the muscle(s); and...