ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,436, issued on April 21, was assigned to Third Pole Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for nitric oxide generation with humidity control" was invented by Vineel Kondiboyina (Somerville, Mass.), Christopher Miles (Acton, Mass.), Gregory W. Hall (Belmont, Mass.), Simon E. Kozin (Lexington, Mass.), Wolfgang Scholz (Beverly, Mass.) and Frank Heirtzler (Londonderry, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and devices for nitric oxide generation are provided for use with various ventilation and/or medical devices and having a humidity control system associated therewith. In some embodiments, a system for generating n...