ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,841, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BIOANALYTICS HOLDINGS Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia).
"Sleep monitoring" was invented by Anthony Sasse (Melbourne, Australia), Cyril Jones (Melbourne, Australia), Stephen Ratten (Melbourne, Australia) and Owen Morgan (Melbourne, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring the status of a body of a person during sleep, said method comprising: -retaining in or adjacent the mouth or nose of said person an electronic detector which detects indications of the state of said body, -wirelessly transmitting a first data stream representing said indications to a data receiving means, -tran...