ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,288, issued on July 8, was assigned to ResMed Inc. (San Diego).

"System and method for collection of fit data related to a selected mask" was invented by Gregory Robert Peake (Sydney), Kristina Mira Zlomislic (Breakfast Point, Australia) and Rowan Ben Furlong (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to collect feedback data from a patient wearing an interface such as a mask when using a respiratory pressure therapy device such as a CPAP device. The system includes a storage device including a facial image of the patient. An interface in communication with the respiratory pressure therapy device collect operational da...