ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,115, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).

"Systems and methods for predicting and preventing cases of sudden unexpected infant death caused by sudden unexpected postnatal collapse" was invented by Kenneth A. Loparo (Chesterland, Ohio), Badar J. Kayani (Columbus, Ohio), Farhad Kaffashi (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), Susan Luddington (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) and Matthew McConnell (Sagamore Hills, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device can be worn by a neonate or infant and used to monitor estimated instantaneous SpO2 to prevent Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse (SUPC). The wearable ...