ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,273, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ResMed Asia Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Packaging for a patient interface" was invented by Han Cheng Lin (Singapore), Jing Chen (Singapore) and Sipu Chen (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Packaging for a patient interface comprises: a plurality of panels arranged to be folded inwardly to define a housing for the patient interface, the plurality of panels comprising a pair of opposed side panels and a pair of opposed end panels; and a panel-retaining structure that is arranged to prevent outward collapse of the panels such that the patient interface is held in a compressed state; wherein at ...