Personal spirometer
CA 2032796 C · Owner: Waterson, Charles K. · Inventors: Waterson, Charles K.; Ebeling, Frederick A.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A self-contained portable spirometer includes a housing and an air tube with an orifice. Within the housing there is a transducer and microprocessor-based circuitry for generating standard exhaled air measurements such as FEV1 and PFER. These measurements are displayed on a screen disposed on the housing.
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed December 20, 1990 and granted December 5, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 20, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 20, 2012.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
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Sources & verification
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