ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,117, issued on June 24, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).
"Water out alarm determination" was invented by Po-Yen Liu (Auckland, New Zealand), Ivan Chih-Fan Teng (Auckland, New Zealand), Stefan Leo Van Workum (Auckland, New Zealand), Oliver Samuel Steiner (Auckland, New Zealand) and Anthony James Newland (Auckland, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for an improved method of determining a water out condition in a humidified gases supply apparatus. The method includes a two-step process including a primary determination of a water out condition and a seconda...