US Patent Issued to AER SUPPLY CONCEPTS on Oct. 21 for "Protective barrier system and method of using same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,085, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AER SUPPLY CONCEPTS LTD..

"Protective barrier system and method of using same" was invented by Ryan Patrick Quast (Vancouver, Canada), Jennifer Teresa Cane (New Westminster, Canada) and Babak Golkar (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective barrier system that blocks and prevents infectious aerosols generated by or around a supine patient from escaping into a surrounding environment and reaching and contaminating a healthcare worker treating the patient with a patient interface device. The system includes a flexible, fluid-impervious sheet that covers the patient and ...