US Patent Issued to COSMED on March 18 for "Disposable combined device with antimicrobial filter and flowmeter, for use in spirometry" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,211, issued on March 18, was assigned to COSMED S.R.L. (Rome).

"Disposable combined device with antimicrobial filter and flowmeter, for use in spirometry" was invented by Paolo Brugnoli (Pavona di Albano, Italy) and Simone Chiorboli (Pavona di Albano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entirely disposable combined antimicrobial filter and flowmeter device for spirometry applications comprises a tubular body, with an inlet end portion, an outlet end portion, and an intermediate portion of enlarged diameter in the form of a discoidal shell. In the discoidal shell both an antimicrobial filtering membrane and a discoidal net of pla...