ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,042, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and apparatus for evaluating an airway status" was invented by Jing Guo (Shenzhen, China) and Ruiling Pan (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airway status evaluation apparatus includes a respiration monitoring unit, a data processing unit, an inflation/deflation unit, and an inflation/deflation control unit. The data processing unit is electrically connected to the respiration monitoring unit, collects a respiration parameter of a patient from the respiration monitoring unit when a cuff meets an evalu...