ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,108, issued on May 27, was assigned to ResMed Pty Ltd (Bella Vista, Australia).

"Conduit headgear connector for patient interface" was invented by Ravikumar Baluchagi (Sydney), Lachlan Richard Goldspink (Sydney), Nookarajesh Varma Sangadi (Sydney) and Matthew Eves (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient interface may include: a plenum chamber at least partly defining a patient interface chamber, a seal-forming structure constructed and arranged to form a seal with a region of the patient's face, at least one conduit, at least one conduit connector configured to pneumatically connect the at least one conduit to the plenum cha...