US Patent Issued to CORVENT MEDICAL on Aug. 5 for "Automated ventilator" (North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,238, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CORVENT MEDICAL INC. (Fargo, N.D.).

"Automated ventilator" was invented by Edward F. Ruppell III (Fargo, N.D.) and John J. O'Mahony (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilator (10), including: a housing (12); a reservoir (62) within the housing, wherein the reservoir has an internal chamber, an air inlet port (55), configured to place in fluid communication the internal chamber with atmospheric air outside the reservoir (62), and an oxygen inlet port (68), configured to place in fluid communication the internal chamber with a source of oxygen; and a primary blower (64) having an air ...