ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,518, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Assessing sleep of a subject" was invented by Bernice Marielouise Wulterkens (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Pedro Miguel Ferreira Dos Santos Da Fonseca (Borgerhout, Belgium), Lieke Wilhelmina Alexandra Hermans (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Merel Marietje Van Gilst (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Sebastiaan Overeem (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus (100) for assessing sleep of a subject, the apparatus comprising a processor (102) configured to: receive data indicative of one or mor...