ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,664, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Oura Health Oy (Oulu, Finland).

"Snoring and environment sounds detection" was invented by Miska Mikael Viljami Valkonen (Jyvaskyla, Finland), Robert Alexander Singleton (Toronto), Antti Oskari Laitala (Oulu, Finland), Dmitry Sergeev (Helsinki), Harry Tily (London), Matias Valtteri Kukka (Tampere, Finland) and Mats Kyyro (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for evaluating a sleep quality of a user using wearable-based data are described. The sleep quality of a user may be evaluated by combining physiological data collected via a wearable device, along with e...