US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on June 3 for "On ambulatory respiratory assist device" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,348, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"On ambulatory respiratory assist device" was invented by Marek Swoboda (Philadelphia) and Michal Swoboda (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a device comprising a cuirass, which includes a shell, at least one sensor, a pressure creation means for providing at least one of a negative pressure or a positive pressure within the shell, and a controller operably connected to the pressure creation means, wherein the controller is adapted to receive an input signal from the at least one sensor and adapted to prov...