ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,099, issued on May 13, was assigned to ResMed Pty Ltd (Bella Vista, Australia).
"Gas washout vent for patient interface" was invented by Tatt Hoong Chow (Singapore), Muditha Pradeep Dantanarayana (Sydney), Rahul Khera (Sydney), Dimitri Marco Maurer (Gosford, Australia) and Min Li Tee (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas-washout vent includes a housing with a first wall with one or more passages through the wall configured to provide fluid communication with a portion of the patient interface system exposed to a therapy pressure. The passages include respective first openings on a first surface of the first wall. The housin...