US Patent Issued to NIHON KOHDEN on March 24 for "Mask outer frame unit, mask unit, band-including mask unit and mask outer frame" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,787, issued on March 24, was assigned to NIHON KOHDEN Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mask outer frame unit, mask unit, band-including mask unit and mask outer frame" was invented by Masayuki Inoue (Tokorozawa, Japan) and Yuya Baba (Tokorozawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mask outer frame unit includes a mask outer frame which can be mounted on a mask attached to a face of a patient, and a pad that can abut against the face of the patient. The mask outer frame includes a forehead contact portion which is disposed so as to make the pad abut against a forehead of the patient. An adjustment portion to which the pad can be attached removably...