US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on Jan. 28 for "Breathing control using high flow respiration assistance" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,201, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Breathing control using high flow respiration assistance" was invented by Stanislav Tatkov (Auckland, New Zealand), David Robin Whiting (Auckland, New Zealand) and Jonathan David Harwood (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High flow therapy is used to treat Cheyne-Stokes respiration and other types of periodic respiration disorders by periodic application of high flow therapy, adjustment of high flow therapy flow rates and/or periodic additions of CO2 or O2 into the air flow provided to the patient."

The patent was fil...