US Patent Issued to Affirm Medical Technologies II on April 29 for "Universal respiratory detector" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,566, issued on April 29, was assigned to Affirm Medical Technologies II LLC (Piedmont, Calif.).

"Universal respiratory detector" was invented by Janice Cain (Piedmont, Calif.), Brian Scott Cain (Piedmont, Calif.), Alicia B. Dreger (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Mark J. Bernhard (Alamo, Calif.) and Avinash A. Mohan (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal respiratory detector for detecting a respiratory gas. The universal respiratory detector may include a plurality of layers with a visual indicator to quickly and reversibly change color to detect a respiratory gas parameter such as carbon dioxide. The color change ...