ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,104, issued on May 27, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).
"Ventilator systems and methods" was invented by Timothy P. McCormick (Madison, Wis.), Kimberly Brauer (Madison, Wis.), Tom J. Haggblom (Helsinki), Matti Lehtonen (Helsinki) and Andreas Tzanetakis (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilator includes a ventilation drive configured to drive ventilation gas from a gas source to a patient and a patient interface section configured to guide inspiratory gas from the ventilation drive to a patient connection, receive expiratory gas from the patient connection, and expel the expiratory gas ou...