US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Aug. 4 for "Sleep aid apparatus and control thereof" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,462, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Sleep aid apparatus and control thereof" was invented by Jun Shi (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved means for guiding a user in paced breathing for sleep induction. A processing device controls generating of a cyclically patterned user-perceptible stimulus to guide a user in pacing their breathing. In some embodiments, means are included for aligning a phase of the cyclically patterned first user-perceptible stimulus with a phase of the user's breathing cycle. In some embodiments, means are included for aligning an initial (i.e. s...