ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,043, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hamilton Medical AG (Bonaduz, Switzerland).
"Ventilation device designed to identify functional impairment of its O2 sensor assembly" was invented by Christoph Schranz (Flasch, Switzerland), Jonathan Schad (Bonaduz, Switzerland), Dominik Novotni (Chur, Switzerland) and Bernd Offenbeck (Regensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilation device for artificial ventilation, having: -a ventilation gas source; -a ventilation line arrangement; -a pressure-changing assembly for changing the pressure of the ventilation gas flowing in the ventilation line arrangement; -a control device; -...