US Patent Issued to Solopep on Sept. 1 for "Positive exhalation pressure device" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,961, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Solopep Ltd. (County Clare, Ireland).

"Positive exhalation pressure device" was invented by Kevin J. O'Sullivan (County Kerry, Ireland), Leonard W. O'Sullivan (County Clare, Ireland), Colum Dunne (County Tipperary, Ireland), Barry Linnane (Limerick, Ireland) and Deirdre McGrath (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive exhalation pressure device (1) is described. The device (1) comprises a housing (2) having an annular chamber (5), a chamber inlet (6) configured to permit air into the chamber, a chamber outlet (7) configured to permit air out of the chamber, and a mouthpiece ...