US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on March 25 for "Dual-connector wye piece" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,389, issued on March 25, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Dual-connector wye piece" was invented by Madeleine Bess Martin (Auckland, New Zealand) and David Robert Kemps (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wye connector has a patient coupling end. The patient coupling end has a first connector surface and a second connector surface. The first connector surface has a first diameter at an axial location along the patient coupling end. The second connector surface has a second diameter at the same axial location along the patient coupling end. The first diameter is larger than...