US Patent Issued to DRAGER SAFETY AG & Co. KGA on March 25 for "Mask adapter for connecting two breathing tubes of a closed-circuit respirator to a breathing mask" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,390, issued on March 25, was assigned to DRAGER SAFETY AG & Co. KGA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Mask adapter for connecting two breathing tubes of a closed-circuit respirator to a breathing mask" was invented by Christian Wilhelm (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mask adapter (10), for connecting two breathing tubes (210) of a closed-circuit respirator (300) to a breathing mask (400), includes a mask connection (20) for a fluid-communicating connection to a breathing area (410) of the breathing mask (400) and two tube connections (30, 40) with tube connection axes (32, 42) for a fluid-communicating connection to a breathing ...