US Patent Issued to ResMed on June 9 for "Methods and apparatus for acoustic monitoring of respiratory therapy devices" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,035, issued on June 9, was assigned to ResMed Pty Ltd (Australia).

"Methods and apparatus for acoustic monitoring of respiratory therapy devices" was invented by Cem Tarakci (Sydney), Barton John Kenyon (Sydney), Aniket Sharma (Sydney) and Timothy Nicholas Shadie (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods implement a status assessment of a respiratory device with sound evaluation. In some versions, the system may include a motor operated pressure generator to generate airflow through an air circuit to a patient interface. The system may include a transducer producing a signal representing sound of the generator in the ...