US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on Dec. 30 for "System and method of detection of water in a conduit for use in a respiratory therapy system" (New Zealander Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,379, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"System and method of detection of water in a conduit for use in a respiratory therapy system" was invented by Simei Gomes Wysoski (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We provide a respiratory therapy system comprising: a flow generator; a humidifier; a respiratory conduit a patient interface coupled to the respiratory conduit to deliver a gases flow to a patient; a sensor configured to determine pressure or flow of the gases flow; a controller configured to control the flow generator to generate the gases flow; and the c...