ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,637, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).
"Headgear" was invented by Kyle Gregory Brown (Auckland, New Zealand), Mark Arvind McLaren (Auckland, New Zealand), Bernard Tsz Lun Ip (Auckland, New Zealand), Mark Richard Tomlinson (Auckland, New Zealand), Chris Onin Limpin Hipolito (Auckland, New Zealand), Craig Robert Prentice (Auckland, New Zealand), Melissa Catherine Bornholdt (Auckland, New Zealand) and Neil Gray Duthie (Auckland, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Headgear for a respiratory interface has multiple separate sections of material joined to form the headgear an...