US Patent Issued to VAPOTHERM on Feb. 18 for "Humidifier for breathing gas heating and humidification system" (Maryland, Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,585, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to VAPOTHERM INC. (Exeter, N.H.).

"Humidifier for breathing gas heating and humidification system" was invented by Felino V. Cortez Jr. (Bowie, Md.), Owen S. Bamford (Linthicum, Md.), William F. Niland (Arnold, Md.), George McGarrity (Centreville, Md.), Carl Buyer (Denton, Md.), Kenneth Miller (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Peter Boyd (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A humidification canister for humidifying a breathing gas, the humidification canister includes a fluid supply configured to supply a fluid and a first gas flow path in fluid communication with the fluid supply. A first ...