US Patent Issued to Covidien on June 24 for "System and method for use of acoustic reflectometry information in ventilation devices" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,110, issued on June 24, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and method for use of acoustic reflectometry information in ventilation devices" was invented by Jeffrey P. Mansfield (Carmel, Ind.) and Catherine Johnson-Tieck (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system and method for use of acoustic reflectometry information in ventilation devices. The system and method includes a speaker to emit sound waves into an intubated endotracheal tube ("ETT") and a microphone to detect returning acoustic reflections. In addition, the system and method includes a reflectometry device ...