US Patent Issued to FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE on July 1 for "Respiratory support system and blower for respiratory support system" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,474, issued on July 1, was assigned to FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Respiratory support system and blower for respiratory support system" was invented by Johannes Nicolaas Bothma (Auckland, New Zealand) and Alex Young (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A respiratory system including a dual outlet blower. One of a first and a second outlet of the blower provides a flow of gases to one of a pair of nasal outlets of a nasal interface and the other one of the first and second outlets provides a flow of gases to the other one of the pair of nasal outlets of the nasal interface. In an alternat...