ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,079, issued on June 23, was assigned to ResMed Sensor Technologies Ltd. (Dublin).

"Systems and methods for increasing a sleepiness of individuals" was invented by Graeme Alexander Lyon (Dublin), Cesar Lopes (Dublin) and Michael John Costello (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory device storing machine-readable instructions and a control system including one or more processors configured to execute the machine-readable instructions to receive initial physiological data associated with a user, determine, based at least in part on initial physiological data, an initial sleepiness level for the user, prompt th...