ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,640, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ResMed Pty Ltd (Bella Vista, Australia).
"Modular headgear" was invented by Gerard Michael Rummery (Woodford, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient interface to deliver air at a positive pressure to a patients airways, including nasal and mouth cushions; a positioning and stabilizing structure to provide a force to hold the nasal seal-forming structure or the nasal seal and the mouth seal-forming structure in position on a patients head, the positioning and stabilizing structure comprising nasal and oro-nasal headgear configurations and including left and right headgear sections, a...