ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,117, issued on May 20, was assigned to LOEWENSTEIN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY S.A. (Luxembourg).
"Method for updating a ventilator" was invented by Igor Bychkov (Ettlingen, Germany), Maria Kopaigorenko (Karlsruhe, Germany), Matthias Schwaibold (Karlsruhe, Germany), Benjamin Born (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Patrick Eisenreich (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating the firmware and software of a ventilator, wherein the firmware and the software of the ventilator are divided into individual modules and separate updates are provided for each module in the form of module updates and these module updates are transfer...