US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on Feb. 17 for "Humidification device communications" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,679, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Humidification device communications" was invented by Peter Alan Seekup (Auckland, New Zealand), Salman Mansoor Javed (Auckland, New Zealand), Po-Yen Liu (Auckland, New Zealand), Ho Shing Lo (Auckland, New Zealand), Dennis Sin Hin Cheung (Auckland, New Zealand) and Karan Deva (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A respiratory or surgical humidifier having communication capabilities for communicating with other medical devices. The humidifier can obtain updates from the other medical devices and transmit and receive other...