US Patent Issued to RESMED SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES on April 21 for "Tongue fat screening assay" (Irish, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,110, issued on April 21, was assigned to RESMED SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Dublin).

"Tongue fat screening assay" was invented by Redmond Shouldice (Dublin), Jose Ricardo Dos Santos (San Diego) and Jeffrey Peter Armitstead (Bella Vista, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods for diagnosis or prediction of the likelihood of a subject experiencing obstructive sleep apnea, determined at least in part by measuring the degree of tongue fat in a subject using, e.g., thermal imaging, THz imaging or other multispectral imaging."

The patent was filed on Jan. 7, 2022, under Application No. 18/269,501.

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