US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 8 for "Tuneable Expiratory Positive Airway Pressure (TEPAP) apparatus and method" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,439, issued on July 8, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Tuneable Expiratory Positive Airway Pressure (TEPAP) apparatus and method" was invented by Stephen George Hlopick (Murrysville, Pa.) and Richard Daniel Sofranko (Monroeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tuneable expiration positive airway pressure (TEPAP) apparatus (10) comprises an entrainment valve (12) and a module (14), fluidly coupled with an outlet port (60) of the entrainment valve, for tuning an inspiration-to-expiration pressure transition of the breath cycle. The entrainment valve (12) includes a housing (56), an upstream inle...