US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Sept. 29 for "Prevention of reflux induced laryngospasm" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,389, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Prevention of reflux induced laryngospasm" was invented by Pedro Irazoqui (Lafayette, Ind.), Ryan Benjamin Budde (Indianapolis) and Daniel Pederson (Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques can prevent reflux induced laryngospasm and the pathologies resulting therefrom, including (but not limited to) sudden death in epilepsy (SUDEP) and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)."

The patent was filed on June 30, 2022, under Application No. 17/855,001.

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