ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,426, issued on July 8, was assigned to L'AIR LIQUIDE SOCIETE ANONYME POUR L'ETUDE ET L'EXPLOITATION DES PROCEDES GEORGES (Paris).

"Device for supplying therapeutic gas particularly NO or N 2 O to a patient" was invented by Yann Blandin (Gentilly, France), Louise Thevenet (Gentilly, France) and Marie Amory (Sainte Luce sur Loire, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device (1) for supplying therapeutic gas, notably NO/N2 or O2/N2O mixtures, comprising an internal passage (2) with valve means (5) for conveying and controlling the flow of therapeutic gas in the internal passage (2), control means (6) controlli...