US Patent Issued to Neurostim Technologies on June 23 for "Detection and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea" (Massachusetts, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,060, issued on June 23, was assigned to Neurostim Technologies LLC (Waltham, Mass.).

"Detection and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea" was invented by Hoo-min D. Toong (Cambridge, Mass.), Vivian Cheng (San Jose, Calif.), Eric Cheng (San Jose, Calif.), Fenghua Lu (Winchester, Mass.), Tiejun Zhang (Boston), Terry Spurling (Menlo Park, Calif.), Anthony Wei (Palo Alto, Calif.), Pheng Dang (San Jose, Calif.) and William C. Altmann (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example inventions detect an occurrence of disturbance during a sleep period of a user. Examples receive data corresponding to a single parameter of the user duri...