ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,239, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Cpap apparatus" was invented by Shigeru Tsuji (Kyoto, Japan), Takanori Hayashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroaki Wada (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CPAP apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a housing, a hose whose one end communicates with a connection portion, a fan configured to expel air flowing in from an intake port, from another end of the hose, a motor and a motor driving unit configured to rotationally drive the fan, a control unit configured to control the motor driving unit, and a flow rate sensor. The control un...