US Patent Issued to RESMED on Aug. 18 for "Apparatus, system and method for determining compliant use of an intraoral appliance" (French, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,322, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to RESMED SAS (Saint Priest, France).

"Apparatus, system and method for determining compliant use of an intraoral appliance" was invented by Ludovic Baratier (Cailloux-sur-Fontaines, France), Fabrice Paublant (Saint Cye Au Mont d'Or, France), Denis Ropp (Ugine, France), Yannick Favre (Epagny, France), Ronald James Huby (New South Wales, Australia) and Muditha Pradeep Dantanarayana (New South Wales, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compliance monitoring system (40) for an intraoral appliance comprises a power source (460), a detector (410) for detecting when the intraoral appliance is pos...