ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,787, issued on July 15, was assigned to ResMed Pty Ltd (Australia).
"Methods of detecting a quantity of water in a humidifier" was invented by Andrew Roderick Bath (Sydney), Matthew Rolf Harrington (Sydney), Liam Holley (Sydney), Ronald James Huby (North Epping, Australia), Richard Llewelyn Jones (Sydney) and Ian Malcolm Smith (Sydney).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of an apparatus determine a quantity of a body of water in a humidifier such as by indirect measurement. The quantity of water may be determined by measuring one or more properties or characteristics, from which the quantity of water may be inferred. Characteristic...