ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,805, issued on July 28.

"Systems and methods for preventing sleep disturbance" was invented by Daniel W. Pituch (Presto, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sleep monitoring and disturbance mitigation system may include a sleep status monitoring apparatus configured to collect real-time sleep data from a subject; to determine a sleep status based at least partially on the sleep data; and to transmit the real-time sleep data and sleep status to a remote receiving station; and a remote receiving station configured to receive the real-time sleep status data and the sleep status from the sleep status monitoring apparatus; to generate, b...