ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,234, issued on March 17, was assigned to Third Pole Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for generating nitric oxide" was invented by Ian J. Gillerman (Somerville, Mass.), Gregory W. Hall (Belmont, Mass.), Wolfgang Scholz (Beverly, Mass.) and David G. Zapol (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for nitric oxide generation are provided. In an embodiment, an NO generation system can include a controller and disposable cartridge that can provide nitric oxide to two different treatments simultaneously. The disposable cartridge has multiple purposes including preparing incoming gases for exposure to the...