ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,044, issued on June 23, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Prescribing a CPAP mask based on patients stress response" was invented by Cornelis Petrus Hendriks (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Joyce Van Zanten (Waalre, Netherlands), Pedro Miguel Ferreira Dos Santos Da Fonseca (Antwerp, Belgium), Joachim Johannes Kahlert (Aachen, Germany), Daan Anton Van Den Ende (Breda, Netherlands) and Jonathan Sayer Grashow (Pittsburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for recommending at least one patient interface device from among a plurality of patient interface devices for a patient. The methods an...