ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,218, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PULMANAGE INC. (Chapin, S.C.).

"Spirometry data systems, methods, and apparatuses" was invented by Amanda Clark (Lexington, S.C.), Prashant Duhoon (Columbia, S.C.), Ben Schooley (Lexington, S.C.), Neset Hikmet (Columbia, S.C.) and Jay Dixon (Chapin, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A healthcare monitoring and diagnostic data system may include a spirometry device configured to capture patient measurements of spirometry-based lung function as spirometry data for a patient, a mobile communications device configured to implement a pulmonary health application that establishes a first communicat...