ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,117, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ResMed Sensor Technologies Ltd. (Ireland).

"Methods and systems for sleep management" was invented by Redmond Shouldice (Sandyford, Ireland), Colin Lawlor (Wicklow, Ireland), Matthew Norton (Sandyford, Ireland), David Mulligan (Sandyford, Ireland), Stephen Mcmahon (Sandyford, Ireland), Paul Phillips (Donaghadee, Great Britain), Damien O'Rourke (Sandyford, Ireland), Luke Gahan (Sandyford, Ireland), Marc Lavelle (Sandyford, Ireland), Conor Heneghan (San Diego), Alberto Zaffaroni (Dublin) and Gareth Mcdarby (Wicklow, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system includes methods to ...