ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,590, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ResMed Sensor Technologies Ltd. (Dublin).
"Systems and methods for determining a length and/or a diameter of a conduit" was invented by Graeme Alexander Lyon (Dublin), Roxana Tiron (Dublin), Niall Andrew Fox (Dublin), Redmond Shouldice (Dublin) and Stephen McMahon (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating acoustic data representative of at least one or more reflections of an acoustic signal. The one or more reflections are indicative of a length and/or a diameter of a conduit coupled to a respiratory therapy device. The method further includes analyzing the acoustic da...