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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2002
Filed:
May. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter Craig Farrell, LaJolla, CA (US);
Gary William Pace, Winchester, MA (US);
Assignee:
ResMed Limited, North Ryde, AU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/500 ; A61M 1/600 ; A62B 1/800 ; A62B 7/00 ; A62B 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/500 ; A61M 1/600 ; A62B 1/800 ; A62B 7/00 ; A62B 9/00 ;
Abstract
A new treatment and apparatus for acute and chronic treatment is described here which incorporates nasal ventilation, with or without concomitant drug therapy, using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or bi-level pressure treatment or variants thereof, including devices which automatically set their pressures based on physiologic data inputs.