ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,646, issued on May 20, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Patient interface and component parts" was invented by Mathew Ian Peacock (Auckland, New Zealand), Laurence Gulliver (Auckland, New Zealand), Jason Allan Klenner (Auckland, New Zealand), Brent Ian Laing (Auckland, New Zealand), Sooji Hope Clarkson (Auckland, New Zealand), Mark Thomas O'Connor (Auckland, New Zealand), Milanjot Singh Assi (Auckland, New Zealand), Aidan James Moyle (Auckland, New Zealand), Andrew Rolf Drain (Auckland, New Zealand), Christi Nicol Enslin (Auckland, New Zealand) and Olivia Grace Curtis (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S....