ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,135, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).
"Nasal cannula" was invented by Alicia Jerram Hunter Evans (Auckland, New Zealand), Craig Karl White (Auckland, New Zealand), Samantha Dale Oldfield (Auckland, New Zealand), Milanjot Singh Assi (Auckland, New Zealand), Erik Robertus Scheirlinck (Auckland, New Zealand), Callum James Thomas Spence (Auckland, New Zealand), Laurence Gulliver (Auckland, New Zealand), Dexter Chi Lun Cheung (Auckland, New Zealand), Michael Robert Barraclough (Auckland, New Zealand) and Matthew Jon Payton (Auckland, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The di...