ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,109, issued on June 24, was assigned to ResMed Inc. (San Diego).

"Remote respiratory therapy device management" was invented by Peter Delangre (Sydney), Paul Frederick Birchall (Sydney), Dawn Rosemary Churchill (Sydney), Graham Stephen Cutcliffe (Sydney), Christopher John Roberts (San Diego), Chinmayee Somaiya (Sydney), Bradley Scott Templeton (Sydney), Wendall Eric Trull (San Diego) and Matthew Scott Tyler (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for updating patient devices is disclosed. The patient devices may include respiratory therapy devices that operate in accordance with instruction sets, such as softwar...