ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,095, issued on July 14.

"Systems, methods, and computer readable media for breathing signal analysis and event detection and generating respiratory flow and effort estimate signals" was invented by Jinxin Yu (Toronto), Richard George Hummel (Toronto), Cristiano Santos De Aguiar (Toronto), Wei Fan (Vaughan, Canada) and Devin Packer (Hamilton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems, methods and computer-readable media for breathing signal analysis and event detection and systems, methods and computer-readable media for generating respiratory flow and/or effort signals from accelerometer signals using trained models....