US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 20 for "System for monitoring tracheostomy airflow" (California, New Jersey, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,281, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Hoboken, N.J.).

"System for monitoring tracheostomy airflow" was invented by Franzisca Komar (San Diego), Sally Shady (Upper Saddle River, N.J.), Matthew Edward Iobst (Maywood, N.J.), Julianna N. Ricci (Millersville, Md.), Yanique Spigner (Paramus, N.J.), Kenneth Poser (Upper Saddle River, N.J.) and Frank Castello (Montclair, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter for use in conjunction with a tracheostomy tube and/or its attachments is disclosed. It is adapted to complement conventional tracheostomy tubes and monitor and measure an a...