ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,088, issued on May 13, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Filter for a humidification system" was invented by Eu-Lee Teh (Auckland, New Zealand), Bernard Tsz Lun Ip (Auckland, New Zealand), Larissa Grace Michelsen (Auckland, New Zealand), Jemma Tamsin Somerville (Auckland, New Zealand), James Robert Jarmey Greenfield (Auckland, New Zealand), Monika Baumann (Auckland, New Zealand), Zane Paul Gell (Auckland, New Zealand) and Benjamin Elliot Hardinge Pegman (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Filters for surgical procedures including a fluid pathway to transport fluid, such as smo...