ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,102, issued on May 13, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Medical tubes and methods of manufacture" was invented by Christopher Jaye Norman Amadio (Auckland, New Zealand), Elmo Benson Stoks (Auckland, New Zealand), Charles Christopher North (Auckland, New Zealand), Mahran Maumoon Sujau (Auckland, New Zealand), Joshua Daniel Stroobant (Cambridge, Great Britain), Gavin Walsh Millar (Auckland, New Zealand), Matthew Liam Buswell (Auckland, New Zealand), Ibrahim AL-Tiay (Auckland, New Zealand), David Leon McCauley (Auckland, New Zealand), Andre Van Schalkwyk (Auckland, New Zealand), Katja Munkelt (Hermsdorf, Germany), Matthew Robert Wilson (Auckla...