ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,044, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO-MEDICAL ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China) and ZHONGDA HOSPITAL SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Respirator and ventilation control method therefor" was invented by Ling Liu (Nanjing, China), Jinglei Liu (Shenzhen, China), Yi Yang (Nanjing, China), Xiaoyong Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Chun Pan (Nanjing, China), Yongsheng Yan (Shenzhen, China), Jianfeng Xie (Nanjing, China), Songqiao Liu (Nanjing, China) and Haibo Qiu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a respirator, which includes a ventilation device, configured for providing ven...