US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on Jan. 13 for "Headgear with directional adjustment mechanism" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,511, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Headgear with directional adjustment mechanism" was invented by Vitaly Kapelevich (Auckland, New Zealand), Christopher Gareth Sims (Auckland, New Zealand), David Monroy Felix (Auckland, New Zealand), Blair Raymund Dadson Murphy (Auckland, New Zealand), Matthew Robert Geoff Slight (Auckland, New Zealand), Vidhi Jayeshkumar Shah (Auckland, New Zealand) and Kavyn Manikkam (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a directional adjustment unit for a headgear for a respiratory mask. The directional adjustm...