ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,692, issued on July 1, was assigned to DRAGERWERK AG & Co. KGAA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Sensor module for respirable gas mixtures, ventilator, therapy device and method for measuring a plurality of gases of a respirable gas mixture" was invented by Gotz Kullik (Lubeck, Germany) and Peter Dreyer (Pansdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A respirable gas mixture sensor module (10) includes a first sensor (1, 14-1, 14-2) for measuring a gas and a second sensor (18, 18-1, 18-2) for measuring the same gas and apply different principles of measurement. The sensor module (10) is configured to determine a measurement result for the gas ta...