ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,344, issued on March 18, was assigned to LifeAir Medical Corp. (Portland, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for generating an air curtain" was invented by Daniel Grupp (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating an air curtain. In some embodiments, a system includes an arch-shaped air outlet and an arch-shaped air inlet configured to generate an arch-shaped air curtain. The air outlet and inlet can also be configured to couple to regions of a bed, where at least a portion of one of the regions is between a head and a foot of the bed. One or more air outlet and inlet con...