US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on May 12 for "CPAP device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,038, issued on May 12, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"CPAP device" was invented by Atsushi Hattori (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insertion-ejection opening opens in a housing case body of a housing case. A tank is inserted into and ejected from a housing space of the housing case body through the insertion-ejection opening of the housing case body. A portion of an upper-side internal surface of the housing case body forms a case slant surface slanted relative to a surface that is perpendicular to a height direction. In addition, the case slant surface faces toward a side of the inserti...