Ingen Brings Aboard Leading OEM Partner for Australia

Medical Industries Australia Pty LTD Signs OEM Contract

YUCAIPA, Calif., Oct. 23, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ingen Technologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets:IGNT - News), a leading global Medical Device Manufacturer focused on the $4B Respiratory market with their Oxyview products for the growing aging population and emerging markets for Home (DME), Hospital and Aviation industries announced today that Medical Industries Australia has signed an OEM contract with Ingen.



Medical Industries Australia is a leading provider of sterile and non-sterile medical products, training and maintenance services, and provides high quality products and services to the Australian healthcare sector and has been supplying distributors and resellers, public and private hospitals, government departments, private clinics, aged care facilities and medical surgeries for more than 20 years.



In Australia, under the national Medicare health scheme, all interstitial lung disease and COPD patients who require oxygen therapy, are provided with a 5 liter/min oxygen concentrator at no cost, this includes a free Oxygen tubing & nasal cannula each month. State Government funded, the concentrators and consumables suppliers are selected by tender, usually on a 3+1 year arrangement.



In the case of new or innovative devices, such as Ingen's Oxyview Nasal Cannula, they fall outside the state tender and can be offered to public government-funded hospitals for trial and evaluation and if accepted, purchased by the various respiratory departments to be used by their patients. Approximately 1,000 COPD patients, each day, occupy a public hospital bed in Australia (at a cost of $580 per day). In many cases it's due to an exacerbation requiring a respiratory investigative review with new titration and oxygen therapy needs established. Approximately 30,000 patients use Oxygen concentrators on a daily basis.



"I look forward to working with Angus Taylor, CEO of Medical Industries Australia. He has already mentioned strong interest from local acute public hospitals in Sydney. We will commence product shipments upon completion of our ISO Certification and CE Mark expected in late December-2009," stated Scott R. Sand, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.



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About Ingen: Ingen is an established medical device manufacturer with an emerging new medical product line for the respiratory market worth an estimated $4 Billion in the U.S., and $8 billion globally. The company introduced Oxyview into the respiratory market in late 2007 after securing U.S. and Foreign Patents and successful licensing with the Food & Drug Administration, and has commenced domestic and global distribution with manufacture representative organizations, and OEM partners. In 2009, the company introduced the new Oxyview Nasal Cannula for adult, children and infants. In addition to selling its respiratory products within the global medical industry, the company is selling the same products within other industries that include aviation, automotive, emergency response, military and government transportation. The company holds a Device Manufacturing License with the State of California, Department of Public Health, Food and Drug Branch as it manufacturers all of its respiratory products in the United States. There are 32 million U.S. patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and 600 million patients worldwide. Ingen Technologies is now the largest manufacturer of in-line gravity-independent oxygen flow meters.



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