ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,049, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Ireland Ltd. (Dublin).
"Intelligent gas source management" was invented by Jaron M. Acker (Madison, Wis.), Craig R. Tolmie (Stoughton, Wis.), Robin Roehl (Janesville, Wis.), Jeffrey Schmidt (Fitchburg, Wis.) and Jeff Milsap (Cambridge, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Therapy gas delivery systems that provide run-time-to-empty information to a user of the system and methods for administering therapeutic gas to a patient. The therapeutic gas delivery system may include a gas pressure sensor attachable to a therapeutic gas source that communicates therapeutic gas...