ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,812, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Device for pulmonary rehabilitation" was invented by Chien-Hua Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Ling Su (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a device for pulmonary rehabilitation. The device is configured to provide adjustable resistance for a patient during respiratory training on demands so as to improve rehabilitation efficiency. Moreover, the device is configured to adapt a variety of external parts to assist in medication dosing, information processing, and/or sputum removal for the patient during respiratory training. Ther...