ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,855, issued on Oct. 6.

"Sleep monitoring device" was invented by Nathaniel Lasry (Montreal), Mervyn Gornitsky (Westmount, Canada), Hyman Morris Schipper (Cote Saint-Luc, Canada), Sharmistha Bhadra (Montreal) and Seyedfakhreddin Nabavi (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One general aspect includes an intraoral sleep monitoring device, for determining a status of a user's breathing, including at least one measurement device, on one or more electronics-compatible substrate, adapted to produce data related to a status of a user's breathing and a data storage system recording the data from the at least one measurement device."

The p...