ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,929, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ICU Medical International Ltd. (Ashford, Great Britain).
"Respiratory therapy apparatus and methods" was invented by Mohammad Qassim Mohammad Khasawneh (Canterbury, Great Britain) and Sondre Skatter (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibratory respiratory therapy device (100) has a valve element (11) on a rocker arm (12) that opens and closes an opening (10) during exhalation through the device and thereby generates sound. A mobile phone (20) with a microphone (21) picks up the sound generated and has a processor (22) that converts the sound signal into a sound energy signal in o...