ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,819, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INTERSPIRO AB (Taby, Sweden).

"Arrangement for breathing apparatus, and breathing apparatus" was invented by Pierre Buhlmann (Lidingo, Sweden), Anders Johnsson (Spanga, Sweden) and Lars Liljeberg (Tallberg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for a breathing apparatus, the arrangement comprising a breathing device; a primary connection point; a secondary connection point; a primary side; a secondary side; a first valve arranged between the primary connection point and the secondary connection point, the first valve being arranged to automatically close a first fluid connection be...