US Patent Issued to ZOLL Medical on June 16 for "Ventilation monitoring" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,976, issued on June 16, was assigned to ZOLL Medical Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"Ventilation monitoring" was invented by Gary A. Freeman (Waltham, Mass.), Guy R. Johnson (Wilton, N.H.) and Annemarie Silver (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilation monitoring system for assisting in proper placement of an endotracheal tube in a subject includes: a capnography sensor configured to be placed in fluid communication with the endotracheal tube and to provide information representative of the subject's breath; and a processor in communication with the capnography sensor. The processor is configured to provide an indicatio...