US Patent Issued to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on Sept. 9 for "Patient interface and aspects thereof" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,290, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Patient interface and aspects thereof" was invented by Thomas Mark Richardson (Auckland, New Zealand), Jonathan Mark Downey (Auckland, New Zealand) and Janine Elizabeth Collins (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient interface can have a frame supporting a sealing member. Various features of the sealing member can improve comfort and sealing performance in the context of forming seals with the nares of a user, as well as contact with other facial surfaces. The sealing member can include convex portions, concave p...