ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,321, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ResMed Pty Ltd (Bella Vista, Australia).

"Patient interface and a positioning and stabilising structure" was invented by Muditha Pradeep Dantanarayana (Sydney), Paul Andrew Dickens (Blue Mountains, Australia) and Gerard Michael Rummery (Woodford, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient interface comprises a plenum chamber and at least three plenum chamber inlet ports. A seal-forming structure is arranged to form a seal at least an entrance to the patient's nares and to maintain a therapeutic pressure in the plenum chamber throughout the patient's respiratory cycle. The interface fu...