ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,283, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ResMed Pty Ltd. (Bella Vista, Australia).
"Low cost CPAP flow generator and humidifier assembly" was invented by Zhuo Ran Tang (Sydney), Cem Tarakci (Sydney), John Michael Snow (Sydney), Kenneth Lee (Sydney), Steven Paul Farrugia (Sydney), Dmitri Anatolievich Doudkine (Sydney) and Ian Malcolm Smith (Sydney).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a humidifier of a CPAP device including a controller, the method including controlling a heating element in the humidifier with command signals from the controller, sensing a temperature of a fluid in the humidifier with a sensor in the...