ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,422, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ResMed Asia Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Air delivery conduit" was invented by Angelene Marie Ozolins (Sydney), Beng Hai Tan (Singapore), Mohankumar Krishnan Valiyambath (Singapore) and Sok Li Goh (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of manufacturing components and devices for providing respiratory pressure therapy, and components manufactured according to the methods. Support structures are provided for the components. In embodiments, the support structures may be rigid rings. Alternatively, resilient materials are applied to components to create resilient reinforcing elements. The dev...