US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on June 24 for "Breathing apparatus with mask assembly for delivering breathing gases" (New Zealander, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,114, issued on June 24, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Breathing apparatus with mask assembly for delivering breathing gases" was invented by Wen Dong Huang (Auckland, New Zealand), Arvin San Jose Gardiola (Auckland, New Zealand), Matthew Roger Stephenson (London), Toong Chuo Lim (Auckland, New Zealand), Bruce Michael Walls (Auckland, New Zealand) and Jeremy Owen Young (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mask frame, comprises a central conduit connection aperture and lateral arms having a 3-D curvature. The lateral arms extend: outwardly from a center of the frame, rearwa...